wikid

A quick and simple CLI-program for downloading and rendering wikipedia pages in the terminal.
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      1 wikid
      2 =====
      3 wikid is a quick and simple CLI-program for downloading and rendering wikipedia
      4 pages in your terminal. And it's not **wikid** as in *wiki daemon*, but as in
      5 *wicked, Strikingly good, and effective*.
      6 
      7 Requirements
      8 ------------
      9 wikid uses the **curl** library to download the wiki pages, and **ncurses** for
     10 retrieving the terminal width for line output.
     11 
     12 Installation
     13 ------------
     14 Edit config.mk to match your local setup (wikid is installed into the
     15 /usr/local namespace by default), then simply enter the following command to
     16 install (if necessary as root):
     17 
     18     make clean install
     19 
     20 Example usage of wikid
     21 ----------------------
     22 Read about wikipedia, using `less`
     23 
     24     wikid wikipedia | less
     25 
     26 Read about wikipedia in german, using `less`
     27 
     28     wikid -lde wikipedia | less