Add web-search plugin.

This plugin adds google, bing and yahoo commands to launch the default
web browser to do web search:

e.g.

    google oh-my-zsh
    bing what is zsh
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Hong Xu 2013-05-20 22:18:07 -07:00
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# web_search from terminal
function web_search() {
# get the open command
local open_cmd
if [[ $(uname -s) == 'Darwin' ]]; then
open_cmd='open'
else
open_cmd='xdg-open'
fi
# check whether the search engine is supported
if [[ ! $1 =~ '(google|bing|yahoo)' ]];
then
echo "Search engine $1 not supported."
return 1
fi
local url="http://www.$1.com"
# no keyword provided, simply open the search engine homepage
if [[ $# -le 1 ]]; then
$open_cmd "$url"
return
fi
url="${url}/search?q="
shift # shift out $1
while [[ $# -gt 0 ]]; do
url="${url}$1+"
shift
done
url="${url%?}" # remove the last '+'
$open_cmd "$url"
}
alias bing='web_search bing'
alias google='web_search google'
alias yahoo='web_search yahoo'