a bash cli for googling things from the cli using, can be easily ported elsewhere source and then `goog something i'm looking for`

goog.sh

# modified from https://stackoverflow.com/a/10660730
rawurlencode() {
  local string="${1}"
  local strlen=${#string}
  local encoded=""
  local pos c o

  for (( pos=0 ; pos<strlen ; pos++ )); do
     c=${string:$pos:1}
     case "$c" in
	" " ) o="+" ;;
        [-_.~a-zA-Z0-9] ) o="${c}" ;;
        * )               printf -v o '%%%02x' "'$c"
     esac
     encoded+="${o}"
  done
  echo "${encoded}"    # You can either set a return variable (FASTER) 
  #REPLY="${encoded}"   #+or echo the result (EASIER)... or both... :p
}

goog() {
	xdg-open "https://google.com/search?q=$( rawurlencode "$*" )"
}