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NAME
       WebSearch - a web-searching application demonstrating WWW::Search

SYNOPSIS
       WebSearch [-m MaxCount] [-e SearchEngine] [-o option] [-o option...] [-ardvV] query

DESCRIPTION
       This program is provides a command-line interface to web search engines, listing all URLs
       found for a given query.  This program also provides a simple demonstration of the
       WWW::Search Perl library for web searches.

       The program supports a number of search engines; use WebSearch --list to see which backends
       are installed.

       A more sophisticated client is AutoSearch which maintains a change list of found objects.

       For examples and hints about searches, see AutoSearch.

OPTIONS
       WebSearch uses Getopt::Long, so you can use double-minus with long option names, or single-
       minus with one-letter abbreviations.

       --engine e_name, -e e_name
               The  string  e_name  is  the  name  of  (the  module  for) the desired search engine.
               Capitalization matters.  See `perldoc WWW::Search` to find out what  the  default  is
               (probably Null).

               Use --list to get a list of installed backends.

       --gui, -g
               Perform  the  search  to mimic the default browser-based search.  Not implemented for
               all backends, see the documentation for each backend.

       --list  Prints to STDERR a \n-separated list of installed backends.

       --max max_count, -m max_count
               Specify the maximum number of hits to retrieve.

       --option o_string, -o o_string
               Specify a search-engine option in the form  'key=value'  (or  just  'key').   Can  be
               repeated for as many options are needed.  Keys can be repeated.

       --count, -c
               As  the  first  line of output, print the approximate hit count.  As the last line of
               output, print the actual hit count.

       --terse, -t
               Do not print any URLs.  Only useful if you also  specify  --count.   If  you  specify
               --terse but not --count, there will be no output no matter how many hits are found!

       --all, -a
               For  each  hit  result,  print  all  the  URLs  that the search engine indicated were
               equivalent to it.  (Some URLs may refer to the same object.)  Can  be  combined  with
               --verbose; can not be combined with --raw.

       --raw, -r
               For each hit result, print the raw HTML.  Not implemented for all backends.

       --verbose, -v
               Verbose  mode.   Enumerate  the  returned URLs and show the description, score, date,
               etc. for each.

       --VERSION, -V
               Print version information and exit immediately.

       --debug <i>, -d <i>
               Display back-end debugging information (with debug level <i>)

       --host <hostname.sub.domain>
               Set the _host option for the WWW::Search object (backend-dependent).

       --port <i>
               Set the _port option for the WWW::Search object (backend-dependent).

       --username <bbunny>
               Set the username with which to login to the backend.

       --password <c4rr0t5>
               Set the password with which to login to the backend.

       --lwpdebug, -l
               Display low-level libwww-perl debugging information

ENVIRONMENT VARIABLES
       The environment variable http_proxy (or HTTP_PROXY) specifies a proxy, if any.

SEE ALSO
       For the library, see WWW::Search.

       For a more sophisticated client, see AutoSearch.

AUTHOR
       "WebSearch" was written by John Heidemann, <johnh AT isi.edu>.   "WebSearch"  is  maintained  by
       Martin Thurn, <mthurn AT cpan.org>.

COPYRIGHT
       Copyright (c) 1996-1997 University of Southern California.  All rights reserved.

       Redistribution  and  use  in  source  and  binary forms are permitted provided that the above
       copyright notice  and  this  paragraph  are  duplicated  in  all  such  forms  and  that  any
       documentation,  advertising  materials,  and other materials related to such distribution and
       use acknowledge that the software was developed by the  University  of  Southern  California,
       Information  Sciences  Institute.   The  name of the University may not be used to endorse or
       promote products derived from this software without specific prior written permission.

       THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS" AND WITHOUT ANY EXPRESS OR IMPLIED  WARRANTIES,  INCLUDING,
       WITHOUT  LIMITATION,  THE  IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR
       PURPOSE.

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