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Generate a shortened URL with is.gd

Check the API. You shouldn't need sed. The print-newline at the end is to prevent zsh from inserting a % after the end-of-output. Also works with http://v.gd Show Sample Output
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```
% isgd 'commandlinefu.com'
http://is.gd/IjoOpX
```
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isgd () { curl 'http://is.gd/create.php?format=simple&url='"$1" ; printf "\n" }

dbbolton · 2011-08-14 23:31:39 3
Displays the number of unread messages on your gmail at the top right corner of your terminal

Checks your gmail account every 30 seconds and display the number of new messages in the top right corner of the terminal. A kind of CLI "Gmail notifier" if you will. :-) This is a mashup of http://www.commandlinefu.com/commands/view/7916/put-a-console-clock-in-top-right-corner and http://www.commandlinefu.com/commands/view/3386/check-your-unread-gmail-from-the-command-line
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while sleep 30; do tput sc;tput cup 0 $(($(tput cols)-15));echo -n " New Emails: $(curl -u username:password --silent https://mail.google.com/mail/feed/atom | grep 'fullcount' | grep -o '[0-9]\+')";tput rc; done &

saze · 2011-09-07 08:40:28 8
geoip information

Show external IP and geolocation information. Primary feature is the use of tee to echo IP _and_ send to geoiplookup command...Use IP as input for as many commands as you want with more >( [command] ) Thanks to http://www.commandlinefu.com/commands/view/6334/ Requires MaxMind DB and geoiplookup tool. Sample output has IP obfuscated on first line, lines 2-4 from having MaxMind Country && MaxMind City DBs installed Show Sample Output
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```
***.***.***.***
GeoIP Country Edition: US, United States
GeoIP City Edition, Rev 1: US, WA, Seattle, 98194, 47.595100, -122.332603, 819, 206
GeoIP City Edition, Rev 0: US, WA, Seattle, 98194, 47.595100, -122.332603
```
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curl -s ifconfig.me|tee >(xargs geoiplookup)

MeanderingCode · 2012-02-09 20:30:26 4
Get your external IP address ( 10 characters long )

Shortest url to a external IP-service, 10 characters. Show Sample Output
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```
victor@crunchbang:~$ curl ip.nu
<html>
	<head>
		<title>ip</title>
	</head>
	<body>
		Your IP address is *.228.*.127
	</body>
</html>
```
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curl ip.nu

VictorBjelkholm · 2012-04-08 19:43:36 3
url shortner using google's shortner api

First get a api key for google url shortner from here https://developers.google.com/url-shortener/ Then replace the API_KEY in the command Show Sample Output
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```
shorty http://stackoverflow.com/questions/8903222/using-curl-to-send-json-within-a-bash-script
http://goo.gl/UePvn
```
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shorty () { curl -s https://www.googleapis.com/urlshortener/v1/url\?key\=API_KEY -H 'Content-Type: application/json' -d '{"longUrl": "'"$1"'"}' | egrep -o 'http://goo.gl/[^"]*' }

cybersiddhu · 2012-04-26 18:30:50 4
Search Google
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Q="Hello world"; GOOG_URL="http://www.google.com/search?q="; AGENT="Mozilla/4.0"; stream=$(curl -A "$AGENT" -skLm 10 "${GOOG_URL}\"${Q/\ /+}\"" | grep -oP '\/url\?q=.+?&amp' | sed 's/\/url?q=//;s/&amp//'); echo -e "${stream//\%/\x}"

westeros91 · 2012-08-26 20:13:21 8
display the hover text of the most recent xkcd

I look at xkcd in my news reader, but it displays the image's title attribute only for a few seconds which makes reading the longer ones more challenging. So I use this to display it in my console.
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curl -s 'http://xkcd.com/rss.xml' | xpath '//item[1]/description/text()' 2>&1 | sed -n 's/.*title="$[^"]*$".*/\1/p' | fold -s

putnamhill · 2013-02-16 22:38:26 7
Get own public IP address

Plain Text Ip Output, independent of Layout change. Show Sample Output
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```
$ curl -s http://wtfismyip.com/text
127.0.0.1
```
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curl -s http://wtfismyip.com/text

m3adow · 2013-06-27 10:53:54 7
Download all images from a 4chan thread

first grep all href images then sed the url part then wget
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curl -s $1 | grep -o -i '<a href="//images.4chan.org/[^>]*>' | sed -r 's%.*"//([^"]*)".*%\1%' | xargs wget

bugmenot · 2013-07-22 10:33:55 6
Fetch the current human population of Earth

Fetches the world population JSON data from the US census and parses it uses jshon Show Sample Output
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```
710096404
```
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curl -s http://www.census.gov/popclock/data/population/world | jshon -e world -e population -u

goodevilgenius · 2013-07-28 00:52:00 7
Update a namecheap @ A record to point to your current internet-facing IP address

Sets the @ A record for your domain hosted by namecheap to your current internet-facing IP address, logs success or failure with syslog, and logs the data returned to /root/dnsupdate. Change the XXX's as appropriate. More info at: http://www.namecheap.com/support/knowledgebase/article.aspx/29/ Show Sample Output
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```
Aug 11 12:05:22 sync dnsupdate: Update Sucessful
```
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logger -tdnsupdate $(curl -s 'https://dynamicdns.park-your-domain.com/update?host=@&domain=xxx&password=xxx'|tee -a /root/dnsupdate|perl -pe'/Count>(\d+)<\/Err/;$_=$1eq"0"?"Update Sucessful":"Update failed"'&&date>>/root/dnsupdate)

MagisterQuis · 2013-08-11 16:27:39 7
Get ElasticSearch configuration and version details

Replace localhost:9200 with your server location and port. This is the ElasticSearch's default setup for local instances. Show Sample Output
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```
{
  "status" : 200,
  "name" : "node_name",
  "cluster_name" : "cluster_name",
  "version" : {
    "number" : "1.4.2",
    "build_hash" : "927caff6f05403e936c20bf4529f144f0c89fd8c",
    "build_timestamp" : "2014-12-16T14:11:12Z",
    "build_snapshot" : false,
    "lucene_version" : "4.10.2"
  },
  "tagline" : "You Know, for Search"
}
```
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curl -XGET 'localhost:9200'

paulera · 2015-01-23 15:01:29 14
Check if the LHC has destroyed the world

This says if the LHC has destroyed the world. Run it in a loop to monitor the state of Earth. Might not work reliable, if the world has actually been destroyed. Show Sample Output
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```
NO.
```
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curl -s http://www.hasthelhcdestroyedtheearth.com/ | sed -En '/span/s/.*>(.*)<.*/\1/p'

BeniBela · 2015-09-23 12:30:31 12
Retrieve "last modified" timestamp of web resource in UTC seconds

This command line assumes that "${url}" is the URL of the web resource. It can be useful to check the "freshness" of a download URL before a GET request. Show Sample Output
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```
1464896240
```
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curl --silent --head "${url}" | grep 'Last-Modified:' | cut -c 16- | date -f - +'%s'

oldo · 2016-06-02 22:20:55 11
Download latest released gitlab docker container

Download latest released gitlab docker container
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wget -qO- 'https://github.com'$(curl -s 'https://github.com'$(curl -s https://github.com/sameersbn/docker-gitlab/releases | grep -m 1 -o '<a.*[0-9\.]</a>' | cut -d '"' -f 2) | grep -o '<a.* rel="nofollow">' | grep 'tar.gz' | cut -d '"' -f 2)

BigZ · 2016-08-23 21:36:57 14

echo "http://commandlinefu.com" | curl -F-=\<- qrenco.de

malathion · 2017-06-22 22:27:16 19

Check every URL redirect (HTTP status codes 301/302) with curl

curl -sLkIv --stderr - https://t.co/2rQjHfptZ8 -s: silences the output when piped to a different command -L: follow every redirect -k: ignores certificate errors -I: just request the headers -v: be verbose --stderr - : redirect stderr to stdout https://t.co/2rQjHfptZ8: URL to check for redirects piped to grep -i location: -i: grep target text ignoring case location: : greps every string containing "location:" piped to awk {'print $3'} prints the third column in every string piped to sed '/^$/d' removes blank lines Show Sample Output
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```
INPUT:
curl -sLkIv --stderr - https://t.co/2rQjHfptZ8 | grep -i location: | awk {'print $3'} | sed '/^$/d'
OUTPUT:
https://imgur.com/gallery/FZbjmrm
```
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curl -sLkIv --stderr - http://example.org | grep -i location: | awk {'print $3'} | sed '/^$/d'

luxaeterna101 · 2019-02-28 12:07:27 31
Check every URL redirect (HTTP status codes 301/302) with curl
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curl -sLkIv --stderr - https://exemple.com | awk 'BEGIN{IGNORECASE = 1};/< location:/ {print $3}'

rolanda · 2019-03-25 14:47:20 30
Run 10 curl commands in parallel via xargs (v2, faster then v1)
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xargs -I% -P10 curl -sL "https://iconfig.co" < <(printf '%s\n' {1..10})

wuseman1 · 2022-06-02 02:13:14 359
Send an http HEAD request w/curl
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curl -i -X HEAD http://localhost/

ethanmiller · 2009-03-25 17:34:39 7
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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tweet(){ curl -u "$1" -d status="$2" "http://twitter.com/statuses/update.xml"; }

Code_Bleu · 2009-08-23 16:56:24 108
Get number of diggs for a news URL
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curl -s "http://services.digg.com/stories?link=$NEWSURL&appkey=http://www.whatever.com&type=json" | python -m simplejson.tool | grep diggs

jyro · 2009-08-24 08:49:20 4
Get Futurama quotations from slashdot.org servers
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curl -Is slashdot.org | sed -ne '/^X-[FBL]/s/^X-//p'

arcege · 2009-09-06 03:17:19 3
View the newest xkcd comic.

I wasn't sure how to display the image, so I thought I'd try xml for a different twist. Show Sample Output
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```
<?xml version="1.0"?>
<xkcd>
<item>
<title>Spinal Tap Amps</title>
<comment>Wow, that's less than $200 per ... uh ... that's a good deal!</comment>
<image>http://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/spinal_tap_amps.png</image>
</item>
</xkcd>
```
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curl -s 'xkcd.com' | awk -F\" '/^<img/{printf("<?xml version=\"1.0\"?>\n<xkcd>\n<item>\n <title>%s</title>\n <comment>%s</comment>\n <image>%s</image>\n</item>\n</xkcd>\n", $6, $4, $2)}'

putnamhill · 2009-12-03 19:49:37 3
get daily wizard of id comic

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
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curl -o id.gif `date +http://d.yimg.com/a/p/uc/%Y%m%d/largeimagecrwiz%y%m%d.gif`

putnamhill · 2009-12-04 20:16:32 3
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works with fractions like 1/3.5

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/

Automagically update grub.conf labels after installing a new kernel

I like to label my grub boot options with the correct kernel version/build. After building and installing a new kernel with "make install" I had to edit my grub.conf by hand. To avoid this, I've decided to write this little command line to: 1. read the version/build part of the filename to which the kernel symlinks point 2. replace the first label lines of grub.conf grub.conf label lines must be in this format: Latest [{name}-{version/build}] Old [{name}-{version/build}] only the {version/build} part is substituted. For instance: title Latest [GNU/Linux-2.6.31-gentoo-r10.201003] would turn to title Latest [GNU/Linux-2.6.32-gentoo-r7.201004]"

Cryptographically secure 32-bit RNG in strict ZSH

ZSH ships a couple random number generators via the $RANDOM environment variable and rand48() via zsh/mathfunc, but neither are cryptographically secure. This code produces a 32-bit random number suitable for cryptography. It's only dependency is /dev/urandom and it does not rely on any shell commands or 3rd party utilities. It assumes ZSH was compiled with 64-bit integer support.

list files recursively by size

Mount a partition from within a complete disk dump

Suppose you made a backup of your hard disk with dd: dd if=/dev/sda of=/mnt/disk/backup.img This command enables you to mount a partition from inside this image, so you can access your files directly. Substitute PARTITION=1 with the number of the partition you want to mount (returned from sfdisk -d yourfile.img).

Convert an image sequence into a video

Make a directory named with the current date

Create a directory named with the current date in ISO 8601 format (yyyy-mm-dd). Useful for storing backups by date. The --iso switch may only work with GNU date, can use format string argument for other date versions.

Show webcam output

Show the webcam output with mplayer.

Let's make screen and ssh-agent friends

When you start screen as `ssh-agent screen`, agent will die after detatch. If you don't want to take care about files when stored agent's pid/socket/etc, you have to use this command.

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