Browse content from English-language Wikipedia (en.wikipedia.org) in the terminal using the less
program. Requires Unix shell and a working internet connection to run.
Download the wiki
file to any directory (preferably a directory within your $PATH
so you can run it from any location), mark as executable with chmod 755 ./wiki
or chmod +x ./wiki
and then run the script with ./wiki <name of article>
. If you have downloaded the wiki
file to a location within your $PATH
then you can run the script with wiki <name of article>
from anywhere.
Application is licensed under ISC License, Wikipedia content licensed under Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License.