{"id":12485,"date":"2019-03-27T03:23:25","date_gmt":"2019-03-27T03:23:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.appservgrid.com\/paw92\/?p=12485"},"modified":"2019-03-27T03:23:25","modified_gmt":"2019-03-27T03:23:25","slug":"wikit-a-command-line-tool-to-search-wikipedia-in-linux","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.appservgrid.com\/paw92\/index.php\/2019\/03\/27\/wikit-a-command-line-tool-to-search-wikipedia-in-linux\/","title":{"rendered":"Wikit \u2013 A Command Line Tool to Search Wikipedia in Linux"},"content":{"rendered":"

Wikit<\/strong>\u00a0is a free and open source command line program for easily viewing Wikipedia summaries of search queries; it is built using\u00a0Nodejs<\/strong>. The verb\u00a0Wikit<\/strong>\u00a0(derived from \u201cwikipedia it<\/strong>\u201c) means looking up something on\u00a0wikipedia.org<\/strong>, the popular and remarkable open source encyclopedia on the Internet.<\/p>\n

Read Also<\/strong>:\u00a0Googler: A Command Line Tool to Do \u2018Google Search\u2019 from Linux Terminal<\/a><\/p>\n

To install\u00a0Wikit<\/strong>\u00a0on Linux systems, you must have\u00a0nodejs<\/strong>\u00a0and\u00a0npm<\/strong>\u00a0installed, if not install it using your default package manager as shown.<\/p>\n

$ sudo apt install nodejs\t#Debian\/Ubuntu\r\n$ sudo yum install nodejs npm\t#RHEL\/CentOS\r\n$ sudo dnf install nodejs npm\t#Fedora 22+<\/pre>\n
Installing\u00a0nodejs<\/strong>\u00a0and\u00a0npm<\/strong>\u00a0from the default repositories, will give you the little older version. Therefore, read our article to get more recent version of\u00a0nodejs and npm in Linux<\/a>.<\/p>\n
After installing the necessary dependencies, run the following command to install\u00a0wikit<\/strong>\u00a0in Linux (the\u00a0-g<\/code>\u00a0flag tells npm to install wikit globally).<\/p>\n
$ sudo npm install wikit -g\r\n<\/pre>\n
Once\u00a0Wikit<\/strong>\u00a0installed on your system, you can run it using following syntax.<\/p>\n
$ wikit Linux\r\n<\/pre>\n
\n
\"Wikipedia<\/a><\/p>\n
Wikipedia Command Line View<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
The output shown is the paragraphs of the wikipedia article before the table of contents and the line length is neatly wrapped based on your terminal\u2019s window size, with a max of about 80 characters.<\/p>\n
If you are running\u00a0wikit<\/strong>\u00a0on a desktop computer with a web browser installed, you can open the full Wikipedia article in a browser using the\u00a0-b<\/code>\u00a0flag as below.<\/p>\n
$ wikit linux -b\r\n<\/pre>\n
To define the line wrap length to number (minimum 15), use the\u00a0-l<\/code>\u00a0option as shown.<\/p>\n
$ wikit linux -l 90\r\n<\/pre>\n
For more information, go to the\u00a0Wikit Github repository<\/a>.<\/p>\n
Lastly, do check out these fancy command line based tools for various tasks.<\/p>\n
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    You can use the comment form below to ask any questions or share any useful thoughts with us.<\/p>\n
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    Wikit\u00a0is a free and open source command line program for easily viewing Wikipedia summaries of search queries; it is built using\u00a0Nodejs. The verb\u00a0Wikit\u00a0(derived from \u201cwikipedia it\u201c) means looking up something on\u00a0wikipedia.org, the popular and remarkable open source encyclopedia on the Internet. Read Also:\u00a0Googler: A Command Line Tool to Do \u2018Google Search\u2019 from Linux Terminal To … <\/p>\n
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