<div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Jul 6, 2010 at 3:30 PM, John L. Cunningham <span dir="ltr">&lt;<a href="mailto:djohngo@gmail.com">djohngo@gmail.com</a>&gt;</span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
The redesigned Howard County Public Library site is too pointy-clicky<br>
for my taste.  Therefore, I have written a rudementary bash script that<br>
allows me to search the catalog from the command line.<br>
<br>
<br>
--- BEGIN hcllookup.sh ---<br>
#!/bin/bash<br>
<br>
OPTION=&quot;$1&quot;<br>
shift<br>
SEARCH_TERM=&quot;$*&quot;<br>
<br>
case &quot;$OPTION&quot; in<br>
        -a)<br>
        firefox --new-tab &quot;<a href="http://polaris.hclibrary.org/polaris/search/searchresults.aspx?ctx=1.1033.0.0.6&amp;type=Advanced&amp;term=$SEARCH_TERM&amp;term2=&amp;term3=&amp;term4=&amp;by=AU&amp;by2=KW&amp;by3=KW&amp;by4=KW&amp;bool1=And&amp;bool2=And&amp;bool3=And&amp;limit=TOM=*&amp;sort=RELEVANCE&amp;page=0" target="_blank">http://polaris.hclibrary.org/polaris/search/searchresults.aspx?ctx=1.1033.0.0.6&amp;type=Advanced&amp;term=$SEARCH_TERM&amp;term2=&amp;term3=&amp;term4=&amp;by=AU&amp;by2=KW&amp;by3=KW&amp;by4=KW&amp;bool1=And&amp;bool2=And&amp;bool3=And&amp;limit=TOM=*&amp;sort=RELEVANCE&amp;page=0</a>&quot;<br>
</blockquote></div><br><br>They went to Polaris Integrated Library System (ILS)? [<a href="http://www.gisinfosystems.com/">http://www.gisinfosystems.com/</a>] <br><br>Yuck. Hopefully Plaris has improved the back end since I looked at them back in the early 00&#39;s. Even back then, the ILS GUI design was goingt point and click of hell.<br>
<br>Good script hack though. <br><br>-- <br>Timothy G. O&#39;Brien, CISSP, NSA-IAM<br><br>Irish dot MASMS at gmail dot com<br><a href="HTTP://www.linkedin.com/in/obrientg">HTTP://www.linkedin.com/in/obrientg</a><br><br>