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Shuttleworth: Amazon search results in the Dash

Posted Sep 24, 2012 22:33 UTC (Mon) by mordae (subscriber, #54701)
In reply to: Shuttleworth: Amazon search results in the Dash by akeane
Parent article: Shuttleworth: Amazon search results in the Dash

You have filled it against gnome-terminal instead of grep and got closed, you dummy! But seriously, it's only a matter of time until we get:

you@home:~$ portal2
base: portal2: command not found...
Would you like to buy and install Portal 2 via Steam for $7.49 [Y/n]?

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Posted Sep 24, 2012 22:49 UTC (Mon) by akeane (subscriber, #85436) [Link]

grep was just an example!

Do you really expect me to waste my valuable time filing bugs for find, ls, lex, yacc, whois, nslookup, getent...

Also, when I run ubuntu-bug I get:

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Excerpt
Page 5: ... https://bugs. launchpad. net/ ubuntu/+bug/1/). As Shuttleworth states ... See a random page in this book.
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You're right though, I was being lazy AND a dummy sticking it under gnome-terminal, real man use CRTL-ALT-F1; what a fool I've been ;-)

Shuttleworth: Amazon search results in the Dash

Posted Sep 25, 2012 0:30 UTC (Tue) by akeane (subscriber, #85436) [Link]

yep, and <TAB><TAB> only gives:

akeane@awesome-haX0r:~$
Display all 2717 possibilities? (y or n)

Should give:

akeane@awesome-haX0r:~$
Display all 3,141,596,254 results possibilities? (y or n)
Do you feel lucky? (y)

Shuttleworth: Amazon search results in the Dash

Posted Sep 25, 2012 3:02 UTC (Tue) by Richard_J_Neill (subscriber, #23093) [Link]

Actually, that one might just be a sensible way to do it.
After all, Ubuntu's command-not-found is actually quite helpful, telling you the apt-get command you need to run.

I'd have no objection to that instance, provided that I had already chosen to add the commercial repository to apt, and that the query was a local one, matching against a local list of available packages (rather than sending the full text of any potentially mis-spelled command + args over the net to a 3rd party).