Never let it be said that computer scripts aren’t useful. Recently a *nix bash shell script was released that allows you to search Wikipedia right from the command prompt – and it works. You can try it out for yourself if you like (scroll down on that page for the script lines) to make your own wikipedia.sh.

Some of you out there may read this and think, "Um.. yeah. Why? What’s the point of scripting anything when we have web browsers?"

Good question. The answer is speed. Bash scripts (or basically any other kind of command line script) run faster than a GUI-based app ever could because there isn’t any screen-draw involved other than the text itself.

[Source: Linux Today]

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