Question

I try to get to a page straight from Bash at http://www.ocwconsortium.org/. The page appears when you write mathematics to the field at the top right corner. I tested

open http://www.ocwconsortium.org/#mathematics

but it leads to the main page. It is clearly some javascript thing. How can I get the results straight from Bash on the first page?

[Clarification]

Let’s take an example. I have the following lines for a Math search engine in .bashrc:

alias mathundergradsearch='/Users/user/bin/mathundergraduate'

Things in a separate file:

#!/bin/sh                                                                                                                                                                     

q=$1
w=$2
e=$3
r=$4
t=$5

open "http://www.google.com/cse?cx=007883453237583604479%3A1qd7hky6khe&ie=UTF-8&q=$q+$w+$e+$r+$t&hl=en"

Now, I want something similar to the example. The difference is that the other site contains javascript or something that does not allow me to see the parameters. How could I know where to put the search parameters as I cannot see the details?

Answer 1

open "http://www.ocwconsortium.org/index.php?q=mathematics&option=com_coursefinder&uss=1&l=&s=&Itemid=166&b.x=0&b.y=0&b=search"

You need quotes because the URL contains characters the shell considers to be special.