Google Calculator Command Line

21 Nov 2005

I have been contemplating coding up a little script that scrapes Google to write a command line to the Google calculator, seems I was beaten to it by John Bokma who wrote a nice Perl based Google calculator interface

% gc 50 usd in gbp
50 U.S. dollars = 29.105303 British pounds

Posted by R.I.Pienaar on Monday, November 21, 2005 at 11:52 PM

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