# web_search from terminal function web_search() { emulate -L zsh # define search engine URLS typeset -A urls urls=( google "https://www.google.com/search?q=" bing "https://www.bing.com/search?q=" yahoo "https://search.yahoo.com/search?p=" duckduckgo "https://www.duckduckgo.com/?q=" yandex "https://yandex.ru/yandsearch?text=" ) # define the open command case "$OSTYPE" in darwin*) open_cmd="open" ;; cygwin*) open_cmd="cygstart" ;; linux*) open_cmd="xdg-open" ;; *) echo "Platform $OSTYPE not supported" return 1 ;; esac # check whether the search engine is supported if [[ -z "$urls[$1]" ]]; then echo "Search engine $1 not supported." return 1 fi # search or go to main page depending on number of arguments passed if [[ $# -gt 1 ]]; then # build search url: # join arguments passed with '+', then append to search engine URL url="${urls[$1]}${(j:+:)@[2,-1]}" else # build main page url: # split by '/', then rejoin protocol (1) and domain (2) parts with '//' url="${(j://:)${(s:/:)urls[$1]}[1,2]}" fi nohup $open_cmd "$url" &>/dev/null } alias bing='web_search bing' alias google='web_search google' alias yahoo='web_search yahoo' alias ddg='web_search duckduckgo' alias yandex='web_search yandex' #add your own !bang searches here alias wiki='web_search duckduckgo \!w' alias news='web_search duckduckgo \!n' alias youtube='web_search duckduckgo \!yt' alias map='web_search duckduckgo \!m' alias image='web_search duckduckgo \!i' alias ducky='web_search duckduckgo \!'