A simple shell script to get Google search results on the terminal

google.sh

#! /bin/sh

split () {
  awk -F "$1" "{print \$$2}" -
}

between () {
  split "$1" 2 | split "$2" 1
}

bold () {
  sed -r -e "s|<b>|$(tput bold)|g" \
         -e "s|</b>|$(tput sgr0)|g"
}

strip_html () {
  sed -r -e 's|</?[a-z]+>||g'
}

search_url="https://encrypted.google.com/search?q="
user_agent="Lynx/2.8.9dev.8 libwww-FM/2.14 SSL-MM/1.4.1 GNUTLS"

download () {
  echo "${search_url}$@" | \
    wget --user-agent="${user_agent}" -q -O- -i- | \
    tr '\n' ' ' | \
    sed -r -e 's|</a>|</a>\n|g' -e 's|[ \t]+| |g'
}

counter=0 download "$@" | \
while read -r line; do
  line=$(printf "%s" "$line" | between '<p><a href="/' '<table>')
  url=$(printf "%s" "$line" | between '?q=' '&amp;')
  [ -z "$url" ] && continue
  counter=$((counter + 1))
  txt=$(printf "%s" "$line" | between '">' '</a' | bold | strip_html)
  printf "[%3d] %s\n      <%s>\n" "$counter" "$txt" "$url"
done