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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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Get all IPs via ifconfig

and, a lot uglier, with sed: $ ifconfig | sed -n '/inet addr:/s/[^:]\+:$\S\+$.*/\1/p' Edit: Wanted to be shorter than the perl version. Still think that the perl version is the best..

dd with progress bar

piping through 'pv' shows a simple progress/speed bar for dd. This is a replacement for my otherwise favorite 'while :;do killall -USR1 dd;sleep 1;done'

Simple Video Surveillance by email

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Which processes are listening on a specific port (e.g. port 80)

swap out "80" for your port of interest. Can use port number or named ports e.g. "http"

Execute a command with a timeout

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Truncate long strings in columns and use custom header names

Using the --table-truncate ( -T ) option, you can specify the columns you will allow to be truncated. This helps when you have some columns that are unusually long, or a small terminal window. In this example we will print out the /etc/passwd file in columns. We are using a colon as our separator ( -s: ), defining that we want table output ( -t ), defining the column names ( -N ) and allowing the column NAME to be truncated ( -T ).

Compute the average number of KB per file for each dir

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Compare two CSV files, discarding any repeated lines

The value for the sort command's -k argument is the column in the CSV file to sort on. In this example, it sorts on the second column. You must use some form of the sort command in order for uniq to work properly.

most changed files in domains by rdiff-backup output

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