[Surfraw-devel] How to use surfraw with curl

[Rowan Thorpe]

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won't thread properly with the message it is replying too..)

On 9 August 2016 at 11:21:29, David Niklas <doark at mail.com> wrote:
> Hello,
> I entered this (as a test):
> % sr -browser="curl -L " -s duckduckgo trump
> ---8<---
> Now, I expected to get results as an html page
> to stdout.
> What do I do?

After a few quick experiments with things like -browser="echo x",
-browser="printf 'x%sx'", etc I can see that the commandline parser in
sr obviously just takes the first non-whitespace characters given to
-browser and discards the rest, so your use of -browser="curl -L" was
seen as -browser=curl (hence how it didn't follow the redirect which
the -L would have caused if it was present in the final invocation,
and how adding verbose flags made no difference).

The easiest workaround is to create a small shell wrapper-script with
the desired flags, and call that from sr.
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