#!/usr/bin/perl use URI::Escape; $query = join(" ", @ARGV); $query = uri_escape($query); $url = "http://www.google.com/search?q=" . $query; $text = `lynx -dump $url`; $text =~ m/Results 1 - \d+ of about ([\d\,]+)/i; $number = $1; $number =~ s/\,//gi; print $number;