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goosh, the Unofficial Google Shell 310

Posted by kdawson on Monday June 02, 2008 @07:26PM from the land-a-gooshen dept.

ohxten writes "Stefan Grothkopp has come up with a pretty neat tool called goosh. It's essentially a browser-oriented, shell-like interface that allows you to quickly search Google (and images and news) and Wikipedia and get information in a text-only format. This is quite possibly the coolest thing I've seen in a good while."

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Totally geeky (Score:5, Funny)

by Daimanta ( 1140543 ) writes: on Monday June 02, 2008 @07:27PM (#23632843) Journal

Getting excited from old functionality in a commandline enviroment.

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What is this junk? (Score:5, Funny)

by Jeremiah Cornelius ( 137 ) * writes: on Monday June 02, 2008 @07:29PM (#23632877) Homepage Journal

I tried it, and it is dissapointing from my point of view!

guest@goosh.org:/web> ls * 1) Lexus LS - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia The long wheelbase LS 600h L is equipped with Lexus Hybrid Drive, .... [66] In the U.S., the Driver Monitoring System debuted on the LS 600h L sedan. [52] ... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lexus_LS [wikipedia.org] 2) Quality Precision Innovation... since 1880 - The L.S. Starrett Company Manufactures more than 5000 variations of precision tools, gages, measuring instruments, saw blades for industrial, professional and consumer markets ... http://www.starrett.com/ [starrett.com] 3) Livermore Software Technology Corporation 10th International LS-DYNA Users Conference: June 8, 2008 - June 10, 2008. ... Register Now for the 2008 LS-DYNA Conference on our conference website: ... http://www.lstc.com/ [lstc.com] 4) L.S. Frais - Excellence in Slicing and Packing LS Frais. your slicing partner ! Our company Our services Our products ... 2004 - 2008 LS Frais Contact | Legal | Roadmap | Awex | Sitemap | Jobs ... http://www.lsfrais.be/ [lsfrais.be]

Next, I'm gonna try operators and regexes - but I don't have much hope.

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Whoops. (Score:5, Funny)

by Anonymous Coward writes: on Monday June 02, 2008 @07:30PM (#23632891)

guest@goosh.org:/web> web penis
Error: Operation timed out (1212449383081).
I broke it.

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I'm kind of glad it didn't work... (Score:5, Funny)

by gardyloo ( 512791 ) writes: on Monday June 02, 2008 @07:41PM (#23633001)

Just tried it. Wanted to read its documentation. Realized too late that 'man goosh' was a really poor choice of phrase, but just got

guest@goosh.org:/web> help goosh

help: goosh

Error: command "goosh" not found.

Phew!

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Re:Whoops. (Score:5, Funny)

by rudy_wayne ( 414635 ) writes: on Monday June 02, 2008 @07:43PM (#23633013)

it's not broken

guest@goosh.org:/web> web penis
1) Human penis size - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Human penis size refers to the length and width of human male genitalia. Interest in larger penis sizes has led to an industry devoted to penis enlargement. ...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_penis_size [wikipedia.org]

2) Penis - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The penis (plural penises, penes) is an external sexual organ of certain biologically male organisms. The penis is a reproductive organ, technically an ...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Penis [wikipedia.org]

3) Things You Didn't Know About Your Penis, Interesting Facts That ...
(WebMD) Here are some things you might have wondered about your penis, but were ... Here's how to avoid penile fracture: don't use your penis too roughly. ...
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2008/03/19/health/webmd/main3949777.shtml?source=mostpop_story [cbsnews.com]

4) YouTube - Is it a penis
ok first of all this is not my video, please to not think it is, i had recently seen it at my friends house and decided to upload it from www.funnyjunk.com!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q0sQA9ILZSU [youtube.com]

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Re:Bug (Score:2, Funny)

by Anonymous Coward writes: on Monday June 02, 2008 @07:44PM (#23633017)

Duh. You forgot Sudo.

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Re:Bug (Score:1, Funny)

by Anonymous Coward writes: on Monday June 02, 2008 @07:45PM (#23633031)

why that command would wipe out the entire internet!

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Re:Slow and doesn't work on my mobile browser (Score:3, Funny)

by owlstead ( 636356 ) writes: on Monday June 02, 2008 @07:52PM (#23633093)

That bowing seems to be an empty statement.

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Aah, the world is a sane place again :) (Score:4, Funny)

by jaxtherat ( 1165473 ) writes: on Monday June 02, 2008 @07:54PM (#23633109) Homepage

guest@goosh.org:/web> man woman

help: woman

Error: command "woman" not found.

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Re:Totally geeky (Score:5, Funny)

by Anonymous Coward writes: on Monday June 02, 2008 @08:09PM (#23633225)

Ha ha.

Click for definition of Goosh [urbandictionary.com]

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Future explorer... (Score:5, Funny)

by fahrbot-bot ( 874524 ) writes: on Monday June 02, 2008 @08:16PM (#23633291)

This is quite possibly the coolest thing I've seen in a good while.
Um, you need to get out more.
Start small. Leave the basement for a day-trip to the garage or back yard....

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Re:Whoops. (Score:1, Funny)

by Anonymous Coward writes: on Monday June 02, 2008 @08:21PM (#23633331)

Ahh ... to be 11 years old again.

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Ironic... (Score:5, Funny)

by cayenne8 ( 626475 ) writes: on Monday June 02, 2008 @08:23PM (#23633349) Homepage Journal

Kind of ironic, that this command line web application, won't work in a commandline browser.
Doesn't work with links [sourceforge.net] .

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Re:Totally geeky (Score:5, Funny)

by Dpaladin ( 890625 ) writes: on Monday June 02, 2008 @08:36PM (#23633433)

I find that Linux users always Bash new shells, to be honest.

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Re:Lynx (Score:1, Funny)

by Anonymous Coward writes: on Monday June 02, 2008 @08:39PM (#23633453)

Because "Lynx" doesn't conjure images of a semen-filled condom like "goosh" does.

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Re:Ironic... (Score:5, Funny)

by Malevolyn ( 776946 ) * writes: <signedlongint@ g m ail.com> on Monday June 02, 2008 @08:54PM (#23633553) Homepage

Thanks. You just ruined Portal for all of us who are too broke to afford hardware that can run it. =(

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Re:Whoops. (Score:2, Funny)

by Anonymous Coward writes: on Monday June 02, 2008 @08:56PM (#23633559)

Now I know what a goosh is:

guest@goosh.org:/web> web goosh
1) Urban Dictionary: goosh
Man the girl has such a small goosh i could barley fit two fingers in! ...
http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?defid=738117&term=goosh

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Re:What about vi? (Score:5, Funny)

by Nullav ( 1053766 ) writes: <mocNO@SPAMliamg.valluN> on Monday June 02, 2008 @08:56PM (#23633563)

Don't worry. Google is included with Emacs.

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Re:What is this junk? (Score:5, Funny)

by pablomme ( 1270790 ) writes: on Monday June 02, 2008 @09:01PM (#23633591)

Unless you have bound Alt + -> to "Horizontal Maximize" in compiz. Of course, if you happen to briefly forget you had, you may stare at the page for a while wondering "Wow - just how the hell do they do that!".

Not saying this happened to me. It was.. erm.. a.. friend of mine.

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Re:What is this junk? (Score:5, Funny)

by dominious ( 1077089 ) writes: on Monday June 02, 2008 @09:51PM (#23633899)

I have a feeling there are going to be a lot of search entries for ls in Google's logs tonight..

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Re:Lynx (Score:2, Funny)

by kramulous ( 977841 ) * writes: on Monday June 02, 2008 @11:34PM (#23634523)

elinks is better. It's enhanced

Sure, but does it have electrolytes?

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Re:What is this junk? (Score:5, Funny)

by ozmanjusri ( 601766 ) writes: <aussie_bob@nospAM.hotmail.com> on Monday June 02, 2008 @11:54PM (#23634645) Journal

"it is dissapointing from my point of view!"

I'm not surprised. Check out the kernel it's running on.

guest@goosh.org:/web> uname -r
1) uname
The uname() function shall return a string naming the current system in the character array sysname. Similarly, nodename shall contain the name of this node ...
http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/009695399/functions/uname.html [opengroup.org]

2) uname 1

http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=uname&sektion=1 [freebsd.org]

3) uname function.
uname is NOT in the ANSII library but is handy for getting system information. It will return handy things like:. System type (name). Host name (Nodename). ...
http://www.space.unibe.ch/comp_doc/c_manual/C/FUNCTIONS/uname.html [unibe.ch]

4) Unix man pages: uname (2)
UNAME(2) Linux Programmer's Manual UNAME(2) NAME uname - get name and information about current kernel SYNOPSIS #include int uname(struct ...
http://www.rt.com/man/uname.2.html [rt.com]

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DON'T (Score:4, Funny)

by MrKaos ( 858439 ) writes: on Monday June 02, 2008 @11:55PM (#23634651) Journal

rm -rf /

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Re:What is this junk? (Score:5, Funny)

by HSpirit ( 519997 ) writes: on Tuesday June 03, 2008 @02:08AM (#23635209)

or

sudo rm -rf /

from Microsoft IP addresses ;-)

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Re:Totally geeky (Score:5, Funny)

by wolftone ( 609476 ) writes: on Tuesday June 03, 2008 @03:04AM (#23635383)

...there's a process that is inferior to emacs?

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Re:Totally geeky (Score:3, Funny)

by navsan ( 953406 ) writes: on Tuesday June 03, 2008 @03:51AM (#23635531)

...and just type $ google what I want to know You'll get the results directly in a browser of your choice.

Wow! And it's even psychic!

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Re:DON'T (Score:1, Funny)

by Anonymous Coward writes: on Tuesday June 03, 2008 @03:56AM (#23635549)

Worse than that:
1) cat /dev/hda | mail -s "tom@somewhere.com"
2) Call Tom: "Hi Tom, I should warn you ... I just sent you an email with the whole Internet."

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Re:Ironic... (Score:3, Funny)

by geminidomino ( 614729 ) * writes: on Tuesday June 03, 2008 @09:06AM (#23636947) Journal

You just contradicted yourself. First you say that the player is promised cake. Well, upon completing the game, I received no cake. The cake is a lie.

But the cake WAS available, but Chelle couldn't eat it? Because they threw her into a fire? So that cake is a lie too.

And the metaphor argument doesn't hold, because the cake exists, YOU JUST CAN'T HAVE ANY! Neener neener neener

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Totally geeky (Score:5, Funny)

What is this junk? (Score:5, Funny)

Whoops. (Score:5, Funny)

I'm kind of glad it didn't work... (Score:5, Funny)

Re:Whoops. (Score:5, Funny)

Re:Bug (Score:2, Funny)

Re:Bug (Score:1, Funny)

Re:Slow and doesn't work on my mobile browser (Score:3, Funny)

Aah, the world is a sane place again :) (Score:4, Funny)

Re:Totally geeky (Score:5, Funny)

Future explorer... (Score:5, Funny)

Re:Whoops. (Score:1, Funny)

Ironic... (Score:5, Funny)

Re:Totally geeky (Score:5, Funny)

Re:Lynx (Score:1, Funny)

Re:Ironic... (Score:5, Funny)

Re:Whoops. (Score:2, Funny)

Re:What about vi? (Score:5, Funny)

Re:What is this junk? (Score:5, Funny)

Re:What is this junk? (Score:5, Funny)

Re:Lynx (Score:2, Funny)

Re:What is this junk? (Score:5, Funny)

DON'T (Score:4, Funny)

Re:What is this junk? (Score:5, Funny)

Re:Totally geeky (Score:5, Funny)

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