[CALUG] library script

[Irish]

On Tue, Jul 6, 2010 at 3:30 PM, John L. Cunningham <djohngo at gmail.com>wrote:

> The redesigned Howard County Public Library site is too pointy-clicky
> for my taste.  Therefore, I have written a rudementary bash script that
> allows me to search the catalog from the command line.
>
>
> --- BEGIN hcllookup.sh ---
> #!/bin/bash
>
> OPTION="$1"
> shift
> SEARCH_TERM="$*"
>
> case "$OPTION" in
>        -a)
>        firefox --new-tab "
> http://polaris.hclibrary.org/polaris/search/searchresults.aspx?ctx=1.1033.0.0.6&type=Advanced&term=$SEARCH_TERM&term2=&term3=&term4=&by=AU&by2=KW&by3=KW&by4=KW&bool1=And&bool2=And&bool3=And&limit=TOM=*&sort=RELEVANCE&page=0
> "
>


They went to Polaris Integrated Library System (ILS)? [
http://www.gisinfosystems.com/]

Yuck. Hopefully Plaris has improved the back end since I looked at them back
in the early 00's. Even back then, the ILS GUI design was goingt point and
click of hell.

Good script hack though.

-- 
Timothy G. O'Brien, CISSP, NSA-IAM

Irish dot MASMS at gmail dot com
HTTP://www.linkedin.com/in/obrientg
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