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Commands tagged domain name

Terminal - Commands tagged domain name - 4 results

curl -s http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Internet_top-level_domains | sed -n '/<tr valign="top">/{s/<[^>]*>//g;p}'

2012-12-24 23:54:05

User: flatcap

Functions: sed

Tags: sed domain name

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Oneliner to get domain names list of all existing domain names (from wikipedia)

Quietly get a webpage from wikipedia: curl -s

By default, don't output anything: sed -n

Search for interesting lines: /<tr valign="top">/

With the matching lines: {}

Search and replace any html tags: s/<[^>]*>//g

Finally print the result: p

curl http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Internet_top-level_domains | grep "<tr valign=\"top\">" | awk -F">" '{ print $5 }' | awk -F"<" '{ print $1 }'

2012-12-24 21:00:36

User: sxiii

Functions: awk grep

Tags: list domain name

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Oneliner to get domain names list of all existing domain names (from wikipedia)

echo %logonserver%

2011-06-13 09:52:51

User: 0disse0

Functions: echo

Tags: windows cmdline domain name

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which domain controller the user currently logged onto

The command line can be accessed by using the cmd command which will open a command window with a DOS interface. The command line is a throw back to the early days of computing before there was a Windows interface.

for domain in $(pwgen -1A0B 6 10); do echo -ne "$domain.com "; if [ -z "$(whois -H $domain.com | grep -o 'No match for')" ]; then echo -ne "Not "; fi; echo "Available for register"; done

2011-01-26 01:10:52

User: mariocesar

Functions: echo

Tags: whois domain name 2.0 generator

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A "Web 2.0" domain name generator and look for register availability

You would need pwgen installed first, on ubuntu you can get it by apt-get

sudo apt-get install pwgen