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while true; do curl -s http://sensiblepassword.com/?harder=1 | tail -n 15 | head -n 1 | sed 's;<br/>;;' | cut -c 5- | cb; sleep 1; done
2012-01-30 20:52:14
User: supervacuo
Functions: cut head sed sleep tail
Tags: copy paste website password clipboard generator generate
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Generate random sensible passwords, and copy them to the clipboard

Use the excellent sensiblepasswords.com to a generate random (yet easy-to-remember) password every second, and copy it to the clipboard. Useful for generating a list of passwords and pasting them into a spreadsheet.

This script uses "madebynathan"'s "cb" function (http://madebynathan.com/2011/10/04/a-nicer-way-to-use-xclip/); you could also replace "cb" with

xclip -selection c

Remove "while true; do" and "; done" to generate and copy only 1 password.

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HTMLTEXT=$( curl -s http://www.page.de/test.html > /tmp/new.html ; diff /tmp/new.html /tmp/old.html ); if [ "x$HTMLTEXT" != x ] ; then echo $HTMLTEXT | mail -s "Page has changed." mail@mail.de ; fi ; mv /tmp/new.html /tmp/old.html
2010-07-04 21:45:37
User: Emzy
Functions: diff echo mail mv
Tags: website email html change check web-page
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Check if a web page has changed last time checked.

Checks if a web page has changed. Put it into cron to check periodically.

Change http://www.page.de/test.html and mail@mail.de for your needs.

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urls=('www.ubuntu.com' 'google.com'); for i in ${urls[@]}; do http_code=$(curl -I -s $i -w %{http_code}); echo $i status: ${http_code:9:3}; done
2009-08-17 16:24:26
User: Code_Bleu
Functions: echo
Tags: curl website http_code
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Check availability of Websites based on HTTP_CODE
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wget --server-response --spider http://www.example.com/
2009-03-31 18:49:14
User: penpen
Functions: wget
Tags: Linux unix WWW website
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Dump HTTP header using wget

Let me suggest using wget for obtaining the HTTP header only as the last resort because it generates considerable textual overhead. The first ellipsis of the sample output stands for

Spider mode enabled. Check if remote file exists.

--2009-03-31 20:42:46-- http://www.example.com/

Resolving www.example.com... 208.77.188.166

Connecting to www.example.com|208.77.188.166|:80... connected.

HTTP request sent, awaiting response...

and the second one looks for

Length: 438 [text/html]

Remote file exists and could contain further links,

but recursion is disabled -- not retrieving.

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lynx -dump -head http://www.example.com/
2009-03-31 18:41:36
User: penpen
Tags: Linux unix WWW website
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Dump HTTP header using lynx or w3m

Without the -dump option the header is displayed in lynx. You can also use w3m, the command then is

w3m -dump_head http://www.example.com/
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wget --http-user=YourUsername --http-password=YourPassword http://YourWebsiteUrl:2082/getbackup/backup-YourWebsiteUrl-`date +"%-m-%d-%Y"`.tar.gz
2009-03-31 17:50:41
User: nadavkav
Functions: wget
Tags: backup wget hosting website
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backup your entire hosted website using cPanel backup interface and wget

this will connect to your hosted website service through the cPanel interface and use its backup tool to backup and download the entire website, locally.

(do not forget to replace : YourUsername , YourPassword and YourWebsiteUrl for it to work )

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