I took matthewbauer's cool one-liner and rewrote it as a shell function that returns all the suggestions or outputs "OK" if it doesn't find anything wrong. It should work on ksh, zsh, and bash. Users that don't have tee can leave that part off like this:

This version prints current votes and commands for a user. Pass the user as an argument. While this technically "fits" as a one liner, it really is easier to look at as a shell script with extra whitespace. :)

This shell function grabs the weather forecast for the next 24 to 48 hours from weatherunderground.com. Replace <YOURZIPORLOCATION> with your zip code or your "city, state" or "city, country", then calling the function without any arguments returns the weather for that location. Calling the function with a zip code or place name as an argument returns the weather for that location instead of your default.

To add a bit of color formatting to the output, use the following instead:

Requires: perl, curl

(Apparently it is too long so I put it in sample output, I hope that is OK.)

Run the long command (or put it in your .bashrc) in sample output then run:

Voila! Your contacts' emails will appear.

Facebook seems to have gotten rid of the picture encoding of emails and replaced it with a text based version making it easy to scrape!

Needs curl to run and it was made pretty quickly so there might be bugs.

Add an alias to your .bashrc that allows you to issue the command xkcd to view (with gwenview) the newest xkcd comic... I know there are thousands of them out there but this one is at least replete with installer and also uses a more concise syntax... plus, gwenview shows you the downloading progress as it downloads the comic and gives you a more full featured viewing experience.

This version works on Mac (avoids grep -P, adding a sed step instead, and invokes /usr/bin/perl with full path in case you have another one installed).

Still requires that you install perl module HTML::Entities ? here's how: http://www.perlmonks.org/?node_id=640489

This function takes a word or a phrase as arguments and then fetches definitions using Google's "define" syntax. The "nl" and perl portion isn't strictly necessary. It just makes the output a bit more readable, but this also works:

If your version of grep doesn't have perl compatible regex support, then you can use this version:

Might be able to do it in less steps with xmlstarlet, although whether that would end up being shorter overall I don't know - xmlstarlet syntax confuses the heck out of me.

Prompts for your password, or if you're a bit mental you can add your password into the command itself in the format "-u user:password".

With counter format [001, 002, ..., 999] , nice with pictures or wallpapers collections.

If you don't have netcat, you can use curl.

I use this with cron to timeshift radio programs from a station's live stream.

You will get an error message at the end like "curl: (28) Operation timed out after 10000 milliseconds with 185574 bytes received"; to suppress that but not other error messages, you can append "2>&1 | grep -v "(28)"" to the end of the command.

Bulk downloads the comic strip JPG files for the adult cartoon Savitabhabhi, storing each set in it's own folder. Requires manual removal of "non-image" files that maybe created because each series may differ in length. The command can be easily adapted for UNIX flavours. You need to have cURL in your path.

An improvement of the original (at: http://www.commandlinefu.com/commands/view/2872/update-twitter-via-curl) in the sense that you see a "from cURL" under your status message instead of just a "from API" ;-) Twitter automatically links it to the cURL home page.

Like the tiltle said, you can use an argument too ( the interface )

will show only the IP of this interface and the public IP

( tested with Linux )

You can add that function in ~/.bashrc, then

Now you are ready to call this function in all your terms...

Requires display.

Corrected version thanks to sputnick and eightmillion user.

Requires the date command. This also works with some other comics. Here's a bash script that displays daily Garfield, Id, and Andy Capp:

http://putnamhill.net/cgi-bin/yahoo-comics.sh?ga,crwiz,crcap

I wasn't sure how to display the image, so I thought I'd try xml for a different twist.

Same thing just a different way to get there. You will need lynx

This function displays the latest comic from xkcd.com. One of the best things about xkcd is the title text when you hover over the comic, so this function also displays that after you close the comic.

To get a random xkcd comic, I also use the following:

This bash function uses albumart.org to find the cover for an album. It returns an amazon.com url to the image.

Usage: albumart [artist] [album]

These arguments can be reversed and if the album name is distinct enough, it may be possible to omit the artist.

The command can be extended with wget to automatically download the matching image like this:

A function that takes a domain name as an argument