http://www.google.com/search?q=cool+uses+for+perl

##</code><code>##

#!/usr/bin/perl

package browse;

use warnings;
use strict;

use Exporter ();
@ISA = qw(Exporter);
@EXPORT_OK = qw( jeeves google dictionary thesaurus );

use Getopt::Long;

our %pars;


sub browser_cmdline {

    DoGetOptions ()
        if scalar @ARGV;

    my $site         = shift () or die "no site in browse::browser_cmdline\n";
    my $bDontUseArgv = shift () || 0;

    my $sSearch = join '+', @ARGV
        unless $bDontUseArgv;

    # Replace quotes with http friendly %22-s, and replace whitespace with
    #   query-friendly '+'-s
    #
    $sSearch =~ s/"/%22/g;
    $sSearch =~ s/\s+/+/g;

    $site .= $sSearch;

    my $str =  ( $pars{browser} eq   '' ) ? "lynx -cookies A    $site  "
             : ( $pars{browser} =~ /^m/ ) ? mozilla_path () . " $site &"
             : netscape_path () . " $site &";

    print  "$str\n" 
        and return 
            if $pars{norun};
    system $str;
}
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sub jeeves {
    browser_cmdline 'http://www.ask.com/main/askjeeves.asp?ask=';
}

sub google {
    browser_cmdline 'http://www.google.com/search?q=';
}

sub dictionary {
    browser_cmdline 'http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=';
}

sub thesaurus {
    browser_cmdline 'http://thesaurus.reference.com/search?q=';
}

sub DoGetOptions {

    %pars = (
        browser => "",
        norun   => 0,
        help    => 0,
        usage   => 0,
    );

    GetOptions (
        \%pars,
        'browser=s',
        'norun',
        'help',
        'usage',
    ) or die "bad options $!";

    my $help_txt = 
     qq{\tgoogle/jeeves/dictionary/thesaurus
        \t[-browser] [-norun] [-help] [-usage]
        \tsearch words list 

        google and jeeves perform a search (at the expected location)
        on the given words.  dictionary looks up the first word on
        dictionary.com.  
        
        Quoted strings must be enclosed in single quotes:
            google '\"one two three\"'
       
        -browser n[etscape] launches the search in netscape7,
        -browser m[ozilla] launches the search in mozilla (default is lynx).
        -norun prints out the search URL, but doesn't load it.\n};

    die $help_txt
        if $pars{help} || $pars{usage}; 
}

sub netscape_path { "/usr/local/bin/netscape" }
sub mozilla_path  { "/usr/local/bin/mozilla"  }

1;

##</code><code>##

#!/usr/bin/perl

use warnings;
use strict;

use lib '/home/kester/bin/';
use browse qw( dictionary );

dictionary ();

##</code><code>##

#!/usr/bin/perl

use warnings;
use strict;

use lib '/home/kester/bin/';
use browse qw( google );

google ();

##</code><code>##

#!/usr/bin/perl

use warnings;
use strict;

use lib '/home/kester/bin/';
use browse qw( thesaurus );

thesaurus ();

##</code><code>##

#!/usr/bin/perl

use warnings;
use strict;

use lib '/home/kester/bin/';
use browse qw( jeeves );

jeeves ();