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Mark

10-10-2010, 02:20 AM

How to view wikipedia information using the terminal

Here's an quick and easy way to find wikipedia information about certain keywords.

Simply open up your terminal and type the following:

Code:
nslookup -q=txt searchword.wp.dg.cx

Just replace "searchword" with anything you want, eg. Google or spoon. If there's a Wikipedia entry for it, it'll be displayed. If not you'll get an error similar to below.

** server can't find mcompute.wp.dg.cx: NXDOMAIN

This should work from any operating system, but i've only tested it with Ubuntu.

Pack3t SynAck3r

12-10-2010, 03:41 AM
I think you are starting to get it kid, keep it up.
:yep
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