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List your Boxee queue

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". Show Sample Output
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```
queued  Youtube video
queued  TEDTalks : The amazing intelligence of crows - Joshua Klein
queued  The Fresh Prince of the Dark Side Pranks Christian TV
queued  Grand Theft Auto: Chinatown Wars
queued  Flight of the Conchords Ep 6 Bret, You've got it Going On
```
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curl -u <username> http://app.boxee.tv/api/get_queue | xml2 | grep /boxeefeed/message/description | awk -F= '{print $2}'

Strawp · 2010-01-20 16:17:19 547
Get the state (HTTP code) of a resource from its URL
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curl -s -L --head -w "%{http_code}\n" URL | tail -n1

tokland · 2010-04-02 19:42:14 6
Play 2600 off the hook over ssh

Ever wanted to stream your favorite podcast across the network, well now you can. This command will parse the iTunes enabled podcast and stream the latest episode across the network through ssh encryption. Show Sample Output
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```
High Preformance MPEG 1.0/2.0/2.5 Audio Player for Layer 1, 2 and 3.
Version 0.59s-mh4 (2000/Oct/27). Written and copyrights by Michael Hipp.
Uses code from various people. See 'README' for more!
THIS SOFTWARE COMES WITH ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY! USE AT YOUR OWN RISK!

Playing MPEG stream from standard input ...
Found new ID3 Header
MPEG 2.0 layer III, 64 kbit/s, 22050 Hz joint-stereo
```
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curl -L -s `curl -s http://www.2600.com/oth-broadband.xml` | xmlstarlet sel -t -m "//enclosure[1]" -v "@url" -n | head -n 1` | ssh -t [user]@[host] "mpg123 -"

denzuko · 2010-07-30 23:20:50 3
Play a podcast via XPath and mpg123

Gets the latest podcast show from from your favorite Podcast. Uses curl and xmlstarlet. Make sure you change out the items between brackets.
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curl -L -s `curl -s [http://podcast.com/show.rss]` | xmlstarlet sel -t -m "//enclosure[1]" -v "@url" -n | head -n 1` | ssh -t [user]@[host] "mpg123 -"

denzuko · 2010-07-31 00:17:47 3
command line fu roulette

Splitting on tags in awk is a handy way to parse html.
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curl -sL 'www.commandlinefu.com/commands/random' | awk -F'</?[^>]+>' '/"command"/{print $2}'

putnamhill · 2010-08-13 11:42:42 5
View the newest xkcd comic.

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 use the following: xkcdrandom() { wget -qO- http://dynamic.xkcd.com/comic/random | sed -n 's#^<img src="$http://imgs.[^"]\+$"\s\+title="$.\+\?$"\salt.\+$#eog "\1"\necho '"'\2'#p" | bash; } These are just a bit shorter than the ones eigthmillion wrote, however his version didn't work as expected on my laptop for some reason (I got the title-tag first), so these build a command which is executed by bash.
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xkcd() { wget -qO- http://xkcd.com/ | sed -n 's#^<img src="$http://imgs.[^"]\+$"\s\+title="$.\+\?$"\salt.\+$#eog "\1"\necho '"'\2'#p" | bash ; }

John_W · 2010-08-25 15:44:31 6
Bulk add urls to your Instapaper account

Note, you need to replace the email address with your private Instapaper email address. There are a bunch of possible improvements such as, - Not writing a temp file - Doesnt strip tags (tho Instapaper does thankfully) - Shouldnt require 2 curls
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for url in `cat urls `; do title=`curl $url 2>&1 | grep -i '<title>.*</title>'` && curl $url > /tmp/u && mail -s "$title" your-private-instapaper-address@instapaper.com < /tmp/u ; done

iamarchimedes · 2010-10-16 19:10:19 4
find co-ordinates of a location

Just a few minor changes. First the usage of lynx instead of curl so no sed is needed to revert the spaces. Then the usages of egrep instead of grep -e to save a few characters and last the removal of the extra 0. Show Sample Output
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```
$ : distance 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue, Washington D.C
Full Address: 1600 Pennsylvania Ave NW, Washington D.C., DC 20500, USA,
coordinates: [ -77.0365191, 38.8976964 ]
```
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findlocation() {place=`echo $@`; lynx -dump "http://maps.google.com/maps/geo?output=json&oe=utf-8&q=$place" | egrep "address|coordinates" | sed -e 's/^ *//' -e 's/"//g' -e 's/address/Full Address/';}

houghi · 2010-10-18 21:59:26 3

this simply curls the feed and runs a xpath query on it ... Show Sample Output

atomtitles () { curl --silent $1 | xmlstarlet sel -N atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" -t -m /atom:feed/atom:entry -v atom:title -n}

Seebi · 2010-12-15 11:03:31 6

Find artist and title of a music cd, UPC code given (first result only)

Changed wget to curl and it doesn't create a file anymore. Show Sample Output
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```
Iron Maiden - Killers
```
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curl http://www.discogs.com/search?q=724349691704 2> /dev/null | grep \/release\/ | head -2 | tail -1 | sed -e 's/^<div>.*>$.*$<\/a><\/div>/\1/'

mrman · 2011-01-30 23:45:50 3
YouTube Convert and Download All User's Videos to MP3s on the fly

yt2mp3(){ for j in `seq 1 301`;do i=`curl -s gdata.youtube.com/feeds/api/users/$1/uploads\?start-index=$j\&max-results=1|grep -o "watch[^&]*"`;ffmpeg -i `wget youtube.com/$i -qO-|grep -o 'url_map"[^,]*'|sed -n '1{s_.*|__;s_\\\__g;p}'` -vn -ab 128k "`youtube-dl -e ${i#*=}`.mp3";done;} squeezed the monster (and nifty ☺) command from 7776 from 531 characters to 284 characters, but I don't see a way to get it down to 255. This is definitely a kludge!
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Command in description (Your command is too long - please keep it to less than 255 characters)

__ · 2011-02-03 08:25:42 5
Download 40 top funnyjunk Images to the current directory

If your version of curl does not support the --compressed option, use curl -s http://funnyjunk.com | gunzip instead of curl -s --compressed http://funnyjunk.com
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curl -s --compressed http://funnyjunk.com | awk -F'"' '/ '"'"'mainpagetop24h'"'"'/ { print "http://funnyjunk.com"$4 }' | xargs curl -s | grep -o 'ht.*m/pictures/.*\.jpg\|ht.*m/gifs/.*\.gif' | grep "_......_" | uniq | xargs wget

laniner · 2011-07-21 15:57:21 6
Check if your webserver supports gzip compression with curl
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if curl -s -I -H "Accept-Encoding: gzip,deflate" http://example.com/ | grep 'Content-Encoding: gzip' >/dev/null 2>&1 ; then echo Yes; else echo No;fi

rwky · 2011-08-16 21:48:14 3
Print the lastest stable version of Perl
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curl -s http://www.perl.org/get.html | grep -m1 '\.tar\.gz' | sed 's/.*perl-//; s/\.tar\.gz.*//'

dbbolton · 2011-08-19 23:33:49 3
OSX Expand URL and Copy to Clipboard

Expand a URL, aka do a head request, and get the URL. Copy this value to clipboard.
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function expand_url() { curl -sI $1 | grep Location: | cut -d " " -f 2 | tr -d "\n" | pbcopy }

gt · 2011-08-21 05:30:09 3
Get your external IP address

JSON version. Additionally it may give your geolocation if it's known by hostip.info Show Sample Output
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```
{
 "host": {
  "ipv4": "188.165.241.33",
  "hostname": "ns390090.ovh.net",
  "address": {
    "city":"Roubaix",
    "country":"FRANCE (FR)",
    "geo": {
     "latitude":50.7,
     "longitude":3.1667
   }
  }
 }
}
```
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curl http://my-ip.cc/host.json

samleb · 2011-09-01 00:31:49 3
Expand shortened URLs

This shell function uses curl(1) as it is more portable than wget(1) across Unices, to show what site a shortened URL is pointing to, even if there are many nested shortened URLs. It is a refinement to www.commandlinefu.com/commands/view/9515/expand-shortened-urls to make it better for use in scripts. Only displays final result. expandurl http://t.co/LDWqmtDM Show Sample Output
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```
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UbuntuOpenWeek
```
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expandurl() { curl -sIL $1 2>&1 | awk '/^Location/ {print $2}' | tail -n1; }

defiantredpill · 2011-10-19 01:35:33 4
save login cookie
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curl -c cookie.txt -d username=hello -d password=w0r1d http://www.site.com/login

kev · 2011-11-09 02:57:39 3
send cookie
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curl -b cookie.txt http://www.site.com/download/file.txt

kev · 2011-11-09 03:00:49 4
batch download jpgs which are in sequence
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curl -O http://www.site.com/img/image[001-175].jpg

kev · 2011-11-09 10:19:24 4
Get your external public IP address

Grabs your external public IP. Show Sample Output
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```
xxx.xxx.xx.xx
```
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curl icanhazip.com

o0110o · 2011-11-15 19:57:01 9
Retrieve the final URL after redirect

Sometimes it could be very useful to obtain the final URL you'll use after several redirects. (I use this command line for my automated tests to check if every redirections are ok) Show Sample Output
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```
$ curl http://google.com -s -L -o /dev/null -w '%{url_effective}'
http://www.google.fr/
```
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curl $URL -s -L -o /dev/null -w '%{url_effective}'

labynocle · 2012-01-25 16:11:24 4

Output the latest linux kernel versions from kernel.org

Gets the (previously obtainable with: finger @kernel.org ) info of the latest linux kernel versions available. Show Sample Output

curl 'https://www.kernel.org/kdist/finger_banner'

Testuser_01 · 2012-03-04 21:10:19 4

Get IP address from Tor exit-node

Reciprocally, we could get the node name from a give Tor IP address => ip2node() { curl -s -d "QueryIP=$1" http://torstatus.blutmagie.de/tor_exit_query.php | grep -oP "Server name:.*'>\K\w+" ; } ip2node 204.8.156.142 BostonUCompSci Show Sample Output
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```
#: ip2node() { curl -s -d "QueryIP=$1" http://torstatus.blutmagie.de/tor_exit_query.php | grep -oP "Server name:.*'>\K\w+" ; }

#: ip2node 204.8.156.142

#: BostonUCompSci
```
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curl -s -d "CSField=Name" -d "CSInput=BostonUCompSci" http://torstatus.blutmagie.de/index.php | grep -oP "ip=\K(\d+)(\.\d+){3}"

JisSey · 2012-03-09 16:52:27 3
Print trending topics on Twitter

Prints top 5 twitter topics. Not very well written at all but none of the others worked.
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curl -s mobile.twitter.com/search | sed -n '/trend_footer_list/,/\ul>/p' | awk -F\> '{print $3}' | awk -F\< '{print $1}' | sed '/^$/d'

articmonkey · 2012-03-15 17:17:06 3
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Update twitter with curl

Same as below, but no quotes are necessary when twitting more than one word

Convert seconds to [DD:][HH:]MM:SS

Converts any number of seconds into days, hours, minutes and seconds. sec2dhms() { declare -i SS="$1" D=$(( SS / 86400 )) H=$(( SS % 86400 / 3600 )) M=$(( SS % 3600 / 60 )) S=$(( SS % 60 )) [ "$D" -gt 0 ] && echo -n "${D}:" [ "$H" -gt 0 ] && printf "%02g:" "$H" printf "%02g:%02g\n" "$M" "$S" }

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Find the annual salary of any White House staffer.

Query the Socrata Open Data API being used by the White House to find any employee's salary using curl, grep and awk. Change the value of the search parameter (example uses Axelrod) to the name of any White House staffer to see their annual salary.

intercept stdout/stderr of another process

similar to the previous command, but with more friendly output (tested on linux)

Determine the version of a specific package with RPM

In this case, I'm getting the package version for 'redhat-release', but of course, this can be applied to any package installed on the filesystem. This is very handy in scripts that need to determine just the version of the package, without the package name and all the sed and grep hackery to get to the data you want. To find out all the support format strings that 'rpm --qf' supports: $ rpm --querytags

adjust laptop display hardware brightness [non root]

Convert CSV to JSON

Replace 'csv_file.csv' with your filename.

Limit the transfer rate of a pipe with pv

-L RATE, --rate-limit RATE Limit the transfer to a maximum of RATE bytes per second. A suffix of "k", "m", "g", or "t" can be added to denote kilobytes (*1024), megabytes, and so on. It must be an integer.

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