Commands tagged google

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.

Alternative to http://commandlinefu.com/commands/view/6831/find-co-ordinates-of-a-location with $* instead of $1 so no need to quote multi-word locations

Just add this to your .bashrc file.

Use quotes when query has multiple word length.

This microscript looks up a man page for each word possible, and if the correct page is not found, uses w3m and Google's "I'm feeling lucky" to output a first possible result. This script was made as a result of an idea on a popular Linux forum, where users often send other people to RTFM by saying something like "man backup" or "man ubuntu one". To make this script replace the usual man command, save it as ".man.sh" in your home folder and add the following string to the end of your .bashrc file:

alias man='~/.man.sh'

Shorter and made into a function.

Use curl and sed to shorten an URL using goo.gl without any other api

opens the Google I'm Feeling Lucky result in lynx, the command line browser

Uses Google Closure Compiler (can be downloaded via http://closure-compiler.googlecode.com/files/compiler-latest.zip)

Full Command:

You'll need googlecl and python-gdata. First setup google cl via:

Then give your PC access

Then do the command, save it or use this one to dump it in the cone-address.txt file in your home dir:

Then import into cone.

It filters out multiple emails, and contacts with no email that have N/A. (Picasa photo persons without email for example...)

Google just released a new commend line tool offering all sorts of new services from the commend line. One of them is uploading a youtube video but there are plenty more google services to interact with.

Download it here: http://code.google.com/p/googlecl/

Manual: http://code.google.com/p/googlecl/wiki/Manual

This specific command courtesy of lifehacker:http://lifehacker.com/5568817/

Though all can be found in manual page linked above.

allow multiword translations

use curl and sed to shorten an url via goo.gl

Will create a graph of the results for "x bottles of beer on the wall".

Requires Gnuplot.

Inspired by an xkcd comic: http://xkcd.com/715/

For sample output see: http://tr.im/xbottlesofbeer

works from command line

Usage:

Example:

See this for a list of language codes:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_ISO_639-1_codes

I took matthewbauer's cool one-liner and rewrote it as a shell function that returns all the suggestions or outputs "OK" if it doesn't find anything wrong. It should work on ksh, zsh, and bash. Users that don't have tee can leave that part off like this:

http://immike.net/blog/2007/04/07/hacking-google-spell-checker-for-fun-and-profit/

Check your local temperature based on geolocation.

Weather based on your location

Get Google Reader unread count from the command line.

You'll have to define your auth token with $auth

Or use:

Will return temperature in Fahrenheit of a location (New York City in example).

Uses a Google API.

This is a basis for other Google API commands.

This is a minimalistic version of the ubiquitious Google definition screen scraper. This version was designed not only to run fast, but to work using BusyBox. BusyBox is a collection of basic Unix tools that have been compiled into a single binary to save space on tiny installations of Unix. For example, although my phone doesn't have perl or the GNU utilities, it does have BusyBox's stripped down versions of wget, tr, and sed. It turns out that those tools suffice for many tasks.

Known Bugs: This script does not handle HTML entities at all. I don't think there's an easy way to do that within BusyBox, but I'd love to see it if someone could do it. Also, this script can only define a single word, not phrases. (Well, you could if you typed in %20, but that'd be gross.) Lastly, this script does not show the URL where definitions were found. Given the randomness of the Net, that last bit of information is often key.

This version works on Mac (avoids grep -P, adding a sed step instead, and invokes /usr/bin/perl with full path in case you have another one installed).

Still requires that you install perl module HTML::Entities ? here's how: http://www.perlmonks.org/?node_id=640489

This function takes a word or a phrase as arguments and then fetches definitions using Google's "define" syntax. The "nl" and perl portion isn't strictly necessary. It just makes the output a bit more readable, but this also works:

If your version of grep doesn't have perl compatible regex support, then you can use this version: