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Commands tagged meta

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lynx cmdl.in/9058
2011-08-19 00:44:27
User: marcel
Tags: meta
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Short URL to commandlinefu.com commands

Obviously replace the relevant parts as required. The following also work:

lynx cmdl.in/efu/by-marcel

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lynx cmdl.in/efu/view-9058
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wget -O - http://www.commandlinefu.com/commands/browse/rss 2>/dev/null | awk '/\s*<title/ {z=match($0, /CDATA\[([^\]]*)\]/, b);print b[1]} /\s*<description/ {c=match($0, /code>(.*)<\/code>/, d);print d[1]} ' | grep -v "^$"
2010-06-29 16:22:03
User: nikunj
Functions: awk grep wget
Tags: awk grep meta
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Echo the latest commands from commandlinefu on the console

A Quick variation to the latest commands list with the new-lines skipped. This is faster to read.

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metascore(){ curl -s "http://www.metacritic.com/$@" | sed -rn 's|\t*<!-- metascore --><div id="metascore" class=".*">([^<]*)</div>|\1|p'; }
2010-03-18 21:49:13
User: matthewbauer
Functions: sed
Tags: fetch hack meta metacritic metascore metacritic.com
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Get a metascore from metacritic.com

This will fetch a metascore from metacritic.com.

It requires a url from metacritic without the http://www.metacritic.com/

Example:

metascore games/platforms/wii/supermariogalaxy

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metascore tv/shows/marriageref

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metascore video/titles/newmoon

Would be cool to use this in some sort of a graph.

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sed 's/^/$ /' "$script" | xclip
2009-09-13 11:21:54
User: intuited
Functions: sed
Tags: sed xclip meta
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preprocess code to be posted in comments on this site

Assuming that $script contains the filename of a script you'd like to post as part of a comment on this site, this will prefix each line with '$' and pipe it into the X selection. From there just put the cursor in the right place in the comments box and middle-click.

Should work pretty much anywhere with xclip installed. On debian-ish systems this is installed as part of the package "xclip".

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