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download a list of urls
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cat urls.txt | xargs -n1 curl -O --max-time 10 --retry 3 --retry-delay 1

kev · 2012-05-14 06:38:06 4
Get external IP address (supports IPv4 and IPv6)

ip.telize.com (Listen on both IPv4 and IPv6) ip4.telize.com (Listen on IPv4 only) ip6.telize.com (Listen on IPv6 only) More information on : http://www.telize.com
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curl ip.telize.com

fcambus · 2014-02-04 12:25:52 7
Get your external IP address

If curl isn't available, use lynx.
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lynx --dump icanhazip.com

111110100 · 2010-06-16 11:52:50 3
See where a shortened url takes you before click

We can put this inside a function: fxray() { curl -s http://urlxray.com/display.php?url="$1" | grep -o '<title>.*</title>' | sed 's/<title>.*--> $.*$<\/title>/\1/g'; }; fxray http://tinyurl.com/demo-xray Show Sample Output
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http://urlxray.com/sex-so-hot-it-will-blow-your-mind.php

(Note: this result is totally SFW)
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curl -s http://urlxray.com/display.php?url=http://tinyurl.com/demo-xray | grep -o '<title>.*</title>' | sed 's/<title>.*--> $.*$<\/title>/\1/g'

karpoke · 2010-09-30 10:25:18 4
Get the browser user-agent

That's useful when you're doing some web scraping http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_scraping and you're trying to test your possibly fake user-agent. Show Sample Output
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```
curl/7.22.0 (x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu) libcurl/7.22.0 OpenSSL/1.0.0e zlib/1.2.5 libssh2/1.3.0
```
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curl sputnick-area.net/ua

sputnick · 2011-10-24 09:57:50 3
Get your external IP address

Another simple way to get external IP or use: wget -qO- http://ipecho.net/plain
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curl http://ipecho.net/plain

maxwelleite · 2013-02-20 14:14:19 5
download file1 file2 file3 file4 .... file 100

With counter format [001, 002, ..., 999] , nice with pictures or wallpapers collections.
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for file in $(seq -f '%03.f' 1 $TOTAL ); do echo "($file/$TOTAL)"; curl -f -O http://domain.com/Name_$file.ext; done

nordri · 2010-01-12 15:23:44 6
View the newest xkcd comic.

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.
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echo alias xkcd="gwenview `w3m -dump http://xkcd.com/|grep png | awk '{print $5}'` 2> /dev/null" >> .bashrc

GinoMan2440 · 2010-01-30 20:38:16 5
Post to twitter via curl, Windows version

Aside from curl one will need iconv windows binary since windows lacks a native utf-8 cli interface. In my case I need a proxy in China and iconv to convert gbk status string into utf-8. GnuWin32 is a good choice with loads of coreutils natively ported to Windows "FOR /f" is the solution to pass iconv output to curl.
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FOR /f %%g in ('echo %1 ^| iconv -f gbk -t utf-8') DO curl -x proxy:port -u user:pass -d status=%%g -d source="cURL" http://twitter.com/statuses/update.xml

MeaCulpa · 2010-07-21 04:53:54 3
View the newest xkcd comic.

KISS To get a random xkcd comic: xdg-open http://dynamic.xkcd.com/random/comic/
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xdg-open http://xkcd.com/

unixmonkey8024 · 2010-08-25 19:14:11 3
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. Show Sample Output
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```
% Total    % Received % Xferd  Average Speed   Time    Time     Time  Current
                                 Dload  Upload   Total   Spent    Left  Speed
 11 1621M   11  192M    0     0  1003k      0  0:27:34  0:03:16  0:24:18 1119k
```
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curl -f -O http://pcbsd.fastbull.org/7.0.2/i386/PCBSD7.0.2-x86-DVD.iso

battavia · 2009-04-26 07:23:31 13
Facebook Email Scraper
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fbemailscraper YourFBEmail Password

coast · 2010-05-26 20:52:29 5
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Batch Convert SVG to PNG (in parallel)

Convert some SVG files into PNG using ImageMagick's convert command. Run the conversions in parallel to save time. This is safer than robinro's forkbomb approach :-) xargs runs four processes at a time -P4

remove comments (even those starting with spaces), empty lines (even those containing spaces) in one grep command

useful for discarding even those comments which start with blanks or those empty lines which contain blanks

Show number of NIC's, ports per nic and PCI address

Continually monitor things

You can use this one-liner for a quick and dirty (more customizable) alternative to the watch command. The keys to making this work: everything exists in an infinite loop; the loop starts with a clear; the loop ends with a sleep. Enter whatever you'd like to keep an eye on in the middle.

positions the mysql slave at a specific master position

say you want to reinitialize the slave database without resetting the master positions. You stop the slave, dump the master database with --master-data=2 then execute the command on the slave and wait for it to stop at the exact position of the dump. reinit the slave db and start the slave. enjoy.

Get the list of local files that changed since their last upload in an S3 bucket

Can be useful to granulary flush files in a CDN after they've been changed in the S3 bucket.

Automatically download Ubuntu 10.04 when available

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Downmix from stereo to mono and play radio stream with mplayer

The solution to a year long (and extremely frustrating) problem I've had, caused by the fact that I only have one speaker; this command downmixes the stream to monophonic output, making sure I don't miss any of the music. NOTE: When stream is in .m3u format, a -playlist option is required, as shown below: $ mplayer -af pan=1:0.5:0.5 -channels 1 -playlist radiostream.m3u This command works great with aliases for various channels in .bashrc. Sample below: $ alias radio1='mplayer -af pan=1:0.5:0.5 -channels 1 radio1stream.pls'

Email someone if a web page has been updated.

A cronjob command line to email someone when a webpages homepage is updated.

Copy all shared libraries for a binary to directory

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