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title: "One click DuckDuckGo"
description: "Search any text that is selected anywhere in the OS with DuckDuckGo in a single click! Practical notes and code examples on."
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publishDate: "2012-04-24T00:00:00.000Z"
author: "Hemanth HM"
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# One click DuckDuckGo

> Search any text that is selected anywhere in the OS with DuckDuckGo in a single click! Practical notes and code examples on.

Check out the [ONE CLICK DDG DEMO](http://h3manth.com/ddg.ogg)

Search any text that is selected anywhere in the OS with DuckDuckGo in a single click is really fun!

Yes you read it right, may the text be in a document, webpage, terminal - anywhere you can imagine and select - can be searched with DuckDuckGo with a single click, using a simple one liner and some easy GUI tricks as in the video.

**Dependency:** xclip - command line interface to X selections (clipboard)

```bash
sudo apt-get install xclip
```

**The code:**

`xdg-open` opens a file or URL in the user's preferred application and in this case it's fetching the selected data from xclip and opening a browser that takes the help of DuckDuckGo to search.

```bash
xdg-open https://www.duckduckgo.com/?q="$(xclip -o)"
```

Trying to make a right click context menu from Gnome-Terminal - people who are interested can ping me!