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Commands tagged curl

Terminal - Commands tagged curl - 149 results

echo $(date +%s) > start-time; URL=http://www.google.com; while true; do echo $(curl -L --w %{speed_download} -o/dev/null -s $URL) >> bps; sleep 10; done &

2009-09-19 21:26:06

User: matthewbauer

Functions: date echo sleep

Tags: log curl gnuplot internet download bps speed

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Log your internet download speed

This will log your internet download speed.

You can run

gnuplot -persist <(echo "plot 'bps' with lines")

to get a graph of it.

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curl -u username --silent "https://mail.google.com/mail/feed/atom" | perl -ne 'print "\t" if /<name>/; print "$2\n" if /<(title|name)>(.*)<\/\1>/;'

2009-09-08 06:53:39

User: sitaram

Functions: perl

Tags: Linux perl curl rss gmail

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Check your unread Gmail from the command line

notice what happens when there is more than one unread message in a thread...

also people please dont hardcode the password when you use curl. Leave it out and curl will ask you when it runs. Please...?

curl -u username:password --silent "https://mail.google.com/mail/feed/atom" | tr -d '\n' | awk -F '<entry>' '{for (i=2; i<=NF; i++) {print $i}}' | sed -n "s/<title>$.*$<\/title.*name>$.*$<\/name>.*/\2 - \1/p"

2009-09-07 21:56:40

User: postrational

Functions: awk sed tr

Tags: Linux perl sed awk macosx curl rss gmail

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Check your unread Gmail from the command line

Checks the Gmail ATOM feed for your account, parses it and outputs a list of unread messages.

For some reason sed gets stuck on OS X, so here's a Perl version for the Mac:

curl -u username:password --silent "https://mail.google.com/mail/feed/atom" | tr -d '\n' | awk -F '<entry>' '{for (i=2; i<=NF; i++) {print $i}}' | perl -pe 's/^<title>(.*)<\/title>.*<name>(.*)<\/name>.*$/$2 - $1/'

If you want to see the name of the last person, who added a message to the conversation, change the greediness of the operators like this:

curl -u username:password --silent "https://mail.google.com/mail/feed/atom" | tr -d '\n' | awk -F '<entry>' '{for (i=2; i<=NF; i++) {print $i}}' | perl -pe 's/^<title>(.*)<\/title>.*?<name>(.*?)<\/name>.*$/$2 - $1/'

curl -Is slashdot.org | sed -ne '/^X-[FBL]/s/^X-//p'

2009-09-06 03:17:19

User: arcege

Functions: sed

Tags: sed futurama curl

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Get Futurama quotations from slashdot.org servers

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curl -s http://tinyurl.com/create.php?url=http://<website.url>/ | sed -n 's/.*$http:\/\/tinyurl.com\/[a-z0-9][a-z0-9]*$.*/\1/p' | uniq

2009-08-30 07:55:48

User: amaymon

Functions: sed

Tags: sed uniq curl

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Creating shortened URLs from the command line

curl -s "http://services.digg.com/stories?link=$NEWSURL&appkey=http://www.whatever.com&type=json" | python -m simplejson.tool | grep diggs

2009-08-24 08:49:20

User: jyro

Functions: grep python

Tags: curl python json digg

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Get number of diggs for a news URL

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tweet(){ curl -u "$1" -d status="$2" "http://twitter.com/statuses/update.xml"; }

2009-08-23 16:56:24

User: Code_Bleu

Tags: twitter curl function

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Update twitter via curl as Function

Type the command in the terminal and press enter to create the tweet() function. Then run as follows:

tweet MyTwitterAccount "My message goes here"

It will prompt you for password. Make sure that you use escape "\" character in message for showing varialbles or markup.

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curl http://www.phrack.org/archives/tgz/phrack[1-67].tar.gz -o phrack#1.tar.gz

2009-08-21 10:14:25

User: amaymon

Tags: curl

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Download all Phrack .tar.gzs

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urls=('www.ubuntu.com' 'google.com'); for i in ${urls[@]}; do http_code=$(curl -I -s $i -w %{http_code}); echo $i status: ${http_code:9:3}; done

2009-08-17 16:24:26

User: Code_Bleu

Functions: echo

Tags: curl website http_code

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Check availability of Websites based on HTTP_CODE

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curl http://www.commandlinefu.com/commands/by/<your username>/rss|gzip ->commandlinefu-contribs-backup-$(date +%Y-%m-%d-%H.%M.%S).rss.gz

2009-08-10 12:43:33

User: linuxrawkstar

Functions: date gzip

Tags: backup curl date gzip commandlinefu zless

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back up your commandlinefu contributed commands

Use `zless` to read the content of your *rss.gz file:

zless commandlinefu-contribs-backup-2009-08-10-07.40.39.rss.gz

curl -s 'http://checkip.dyndns.org' | sed 's/.*Current IP Address: $[0-9\.]*$.*/\1/g'

2009-08-06 11:54:31

User: kulor

Functions: sed

Tags: Network sed curl

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Get your external IP address

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cat file-that-failed-to-download.zip | curl -C - http://www.somewhere.com/file-I-want-to-download.zip >successfully-downloaded.zip

2009-08-05 13:33:06

User: linuxrawkstar

Functions: cat

Tags: curl download resume

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use curl to resume a failed download

If you are downloading a big file (or even a small one) and the connection breaks or times out, use this command in order to RESUME the download where it failed, instead of having to start downloading from the beginning. This is a real win for downloading debian ISO images over a buggy DSL modem.

Take the partially downloaded file and cat it into the STDIN of curl, as shown. Then use the "-C -" option followed by the URL of the file you were originally downloading.

(curl -d q=grep http://www.commandlinefu.com/search/autocomplete) | egrep 'autocomplete|votes|destination' | perl -pi -e 's/a style="display:none" class="destination" href="//g;s/<[^>]*>//g;s/">$/\n\n/g;s/^ +//g;s/^\//http:\/\/commandlinefu.com\//g'

2009-07-08 22:10:49

User: isaacs

Functions: egrep perl

Tags: perl grep curl commandlinefu

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Search commandlinefu from the command line

There's probably a more efficient way to do this rather than the relatively long perl program, but perl is my hammer, so text processing looks like a nail.

This is of course a lot to type all at once. You can make it better by putting this somewhere:

clf () { (curl -d "q=$@" http://www.commandlinefu.com/search/autocomplete 2>/dev/null) | egrep 'autocomplete|votes|destination' | perl -pi -e 's/<a style="display:none" class="destination" href="//g;s/<[^>]*>//g;s/">$/\n\n/g;s/^ +|\([0-9]+ votes,//g;s/^\//http:\/\/commandlinefu.com\//g'; }

Then, to look up any command, you can do this:

clf diff

This is similar to http://www.colivre.coop.br/Aurium/CLFUSearch except that it's just one line, so more in the spirit of CLF, in my opinion.

curl -u <user>:<password> -d status="Amarok, now playing: $(dcop amarok default nowPlaying)" http://twitter.com/statuses/update.json

2009-06-14 02:42:34

User: caiosba

Tags: twitter curl amarok

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Twit Amarok "now playing" song

Share your "now playing" Amarok song in twitter!

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curl -s checkip.dyndns.org | grep -Eo '[0-9\.]+'

2009-05-21 16:12:21

User: haivu

Functions: grep

Tags: Network IP grep curl

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What is My WAN IP?

The curl command retrieve the HTML text containing the IP address. The grep command picks out the IP address from that HTML text.

curl -u USER:PASS -d status="NEW STATUS" http://identi.ca/api/statuses/update.xml

2009-05-15 19:57:00

User: unixmonkey3754

Tags: curl identi.ca identica

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Updating the status on identi.ca using curl.

identica is an open source social networking and micro-blogging service. Based on Laconica, a micro-blogging software package built on the OpenMicroBlogging specification.

http://identi.ca/

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curl -s 'http://download.finance.yahoo.com/d/quotes.csv?s=csco&f=l1'

2009-05-04 08:13:59

User: haivu

Tags: curl finance

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Command Line to Get the Stock Quote via Yahoo

Retrieve the current stock price from Yahoo Finance. The output is simply the latest price (which could be delayed). If you want to look up stock for a different company, replace csco with your symbol.

curl --form username=from_twitter --form password=from_twitter --form media=@/path/to/image --form-string "message=tweet" http://twitpic.com/api/uploadAndPost

2009-04-27 15:57:04

User: baergaj

Tags: twitter curl twitpic

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Twitpic upload and Tweet

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curl -f -O http://pcbsd.fastbull.org/7.0.2/i386/PCBSD7.0.2-x86-DVD.iso

2009-04-26 07:23:31

User: battavia

Tags: curl

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download a specific file

download a specific file with -f to not display errors and -O to write output to a file named as the remote file.

curl dict://dict.org/d:something

2009-04-10 18:12:37

User: HorsePunchKid

Tags: curl

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Look up the definition of a word

A bash function might also be useful:

dict() { curl dict://dict.org/d:$1; }

Or if you want less verbose output:

dict() { curl -s dict://dict.org/d:$1 | perl -ne 's/\r//; last if /^\.$/; print if /^151/../^250/'; }

curl -u username -o bookmarks.xml https://api.del.icio.us/v1/posts/all

2009-04-06 13:54:15

User: avi4now

Tags: backup curl delicious bookmarks

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Download all Delicious bookmarks

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curl -i -X HEAD http://localhost/

2009-03-25 17:34:39

User: ethanmiller

Tags: curl HEAD http

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Send an http HEAD request w/curl

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curl http://domain.com/file.tar.gz | tar zx

2009-03-24 04:41:09

User: mkoga

Functions: tar

Tags: curl

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Download and extract a *tar.gz file with curl.

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curl -Is slashdot.org | egrep '^X-(F|B|L)' | cut -d \- -f 2

2009-03-23 19:58:10

User: icco

Functions: cut egrep

Tags: egrep futurama curl

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Gets a random Futurama quote from /.

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