README.md (785B)
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