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=item B<--help>, B<-h>, B<-?>

Display help message and exit.

=item B<--version>, B<-v>

Display program's version and exit.

=back

=head1 COMPLETION

This script has shell tab completion capability with support for several
shells.

=head2 bash

To activate bash completion for this script, put:

 complete -C google-search google-search

in your bash startup (e.g. F<~/.bashrc>). Your next shell session will then
recognize tab completion for the command. Or, you can also directly execute the
line above in your shell to activate immediately.

It is recommended, however, that you install modules using L<cpanm-shcompgen>
which can activate shell completion for scripts immediately.

=head2 tcsh

To activate tcsh completion for this script, put:

 complete google-search 'p/*/`google-search`/'

in your tcsh startup (e.g. F<~/.tcshrc>). Your next shell session will then
recognize tab completion for the command. Or, you can also directly execute the
line above in your shell to activate immediately.

It is also recommended to install L<shcompgen> (see above).

=head2 other shells

For fish and zsh, install L<shcompgen> as described above.

=head1 CONFIGURATION FILE

This script can read configuration files. Configuration files are in the format of L<IOD>, which is basically INI with some extra features.

By default, these names are searched for configuration filenames (can be changed using C<--config-path>): F</home/u1/.config/google-search.conf>, F</home/u1/google-search.conf>, or F</etc/google-search.conf>.

All found files will be read and merged.

To disable searching for configuration files, pass C<--no-config>.

You can put multiple profiles in a single file by using section names like C<[profile=SOMENAME]> or C<[SOMESECTION profile=SOMENAME]>. Those sections will only be read if you specify the matching C<--config-profile SOMENAME>.

You can also put configuration for multiple programs inside a single file, and use filter C<program=NAME> in section names, e.g. C<[program=NAME ...]> or C<[SOMESECTION program=NAME]>. The section will then only be used when the reading program match...

You can also filter a section by environment variable using the filter C<env=CONDITION> in section names. For example if you only want a section to be read if a certain environment variable is true: C<[env=SOMEVAR ...]> or C<[SOMESECTION env=SOMEVAR ...

To load and configure plugins, you can use either the C<-plugins> parameter (e.g. C<< -plugins=DumpArgs >> or C<< -plugins=DumpArgs@before_validate_args >>), or use the C<[plugin=NAME ...]> sections, for example:

 [plugin=DumpArgs]
 -event=before_validate_args
 -prio=99
 
 [plugin=Foo]
 -event=after_validate_args
 arg1=val1
 arg2=val2

 

which is equivalent to setting C<< -plugins=-DumpArgs@before_validate_args@99,-Foo@after_validate_args,arg1,val1,arg2,val2 >>.

List of available configuration parameters:

 action (see --action)
 append (see --append)
 delay (see --delay)
 format (see --format)
 log_level (see --log-level)
 max_delay (see --max-delay)
 min_delay (see --min-delay)
 naked_res (see --naked-res)
 num (see --num)
 prepend (see --prepend)
 queries (see --query)
 queries_from (see --queries-from)
 time_end (see --time-end)
 time_past (see --time-past)
 time_start (see --time-start)
 type (see --type)

=head1 ENVIRONMENT

=head2 GOOGLE_SEARCH_OPT

String. Specify additional command-line options.

=head1 FILES

=head2 /home/u1/.config/google-search.conf

=head2 /home/u1/google-search.conf

=head2 /etc/google-search.conf

=head1 EXAMPLES

=head2 Open a single query, show 100 results

 % google-search "a query" -n 100

=head2 Open several queries, limit time period all search to the past month

 % google-search "query one" query2 "query number three" --time-past month

=head2 Open queries from each line of file, add delay 3s after each query (e.g. to avoid getting rate-limited by Google)

 % google-search --queries-from phrases.txt --delay 3s

=head2 Open queries from each line of stdin

 % prog-that-produces-lines-of-phrases | google-search --queries-from -

=head2 Use a custom browser

 % BROWSER=lynx google-search "a query"

=head2 Use with firefox-container

 % BROWSER="firefox-container mycontainer" google-search "query one" query2