Commands using wget (286)

  • A function for retrieving and displaying a list of synonyms for a German word or phrase. Show Sample Output


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    desyno(){ wget -q -O- https://www.openthesaurus.de/synonyme/search\?q\="$*"\&format\=text/xml | sed 's/>/>\n/g' | grep "<term term=" | cut -d \' -f 2 | paste -s -d , | sed 's/,/, /g' | fold -s -w $(tput cols); }
    lordtoran · 2019-02-09 05:06:42 32
  • Get newest kernel version by parsing the most bleeding-edge Makefile possible. Useful for doing things like writing live ebuilds and/or self-updating PKGBUILDs for testing purposes. Breakdown: * wget -qO - https://raw.githubusercontent.com/torvalds/linux/master/Makefile — retrieve Makefile and pipe to stdout * head -n5 — only the first 5 lines are relevant, that's where all the version variables are grep -E '\ \=\ [0-9]{1,}' — version variables always have an equals sign followed by a number * cut -d' ' -f3 — extract the individual numbers from the version variables * tr '\n' '.' — replace newlines with periods * sed -e "s/\.$// — remove trailing period Show Sample Output


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    wget -qO - https://raw.githubusercontent.com/torvalds/linux/master/Makefile | head -n5 | grep -E '\ \=\ [0-9]{1,}' | cut -d' ' -f3 | tr '\n' '.' | sed -e "s/\.$//"
    realkstrawn93 · 2021-04-27 17:12:05 417
  • just a alternative using a saved html file of all of my bookmarks. works well although it takes awhile.


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    wget -r --wait=5 --quota=5000m --tries=3 --directory-prefix=/home/erin/Documents/erins_webpages --limit-rate=20k --level=1 -k -p -erobots=off -np -N --exclude-domains=del.icio.us,doubleclick.net -F -i ./delicious-20090629.htm
    bbelt16ag · 2009-07-02 01:46:21 7

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    wget -O - http://checkip.dyndns.org|sed 's/[^0-9.]//g'
    thundernode · 2009-08-06 12:47:32 5
  • From Hong Kong Observatory wap site ;) Show Sample Output


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    wget -q -O - 'http://wap.weather.gov.hk/' | sed -r 's/<[^>]+>//g;/^UV/q' | grep -v '^$'
    twfcc · 2009-09-25 02:21:05 6
  • "get Hong Kong weather infomation from HK Observatory From Hong Kong Observatory wap site ;)" other one showed alot of blank lines for me Show Sample Output


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    wget -q -O - 'http://wap.weather.gov.hk/' | sed -r 's/<[^>]+>//g;/^UV/q' | tail -n4
    dakunesu · 2009-09-25 02:36:46 3
  • Combines a few repetitive tasks when compiling source code. Especially useful when a hypen in a file-name breaks tab completion. 1.) wget source.tar.gz 2.) tar xzvf source.tar.gz 3.) cd source 4.) ls From there you can run ./configure, make and etc. Show Sample Output


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    wtzc () { wget "$@"; foo=`echo "$@" | sed 's:.*/::'`; tar xzvf $foo; blah=`echo $foo | sed 's:,*/::'`; bar=`echo $blah | sed -e 's/\(.*\)\..*/\1/' -e 's/\(.*\)\..*/\1/'`; cd $bar; ls; }
    oshazard · 2010-01-17 11:25:47 3
  • Bash scrip to test if a server is up, you can use this before wget'ing a file to make sure a blank one isn't downloaded.


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    if [ "$(ping -q -c1 google.com)" ];then wget -mnd -q http://www.google.com/intl/en_ALL/images/logo.gif ;fi
    alf · 2010-03-23 04:15:03 10

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    wget -qO - "http://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/services/language/translate?langpair=|zh-cn&v=1.0&q=`xsel`" |cut -d \" -f 6
    unixmonkey10186 · 2010-06-05 18:49:59 4

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    wget --load-cookies <cookie-file> -c -i <list-of-urls>
    alriode · 2010-07-12 02:35:21 3
  • Wgets "whatismyip" from checkip.dyndns.org and filters out the actual IP-adress. Usefull when you quickly need to find the outward facting IP-address of your current location. Show Sample Output


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    wget --quiet -O - checkip.dyndns.org | sed -e 's/[^:]*: //' -e 's/<.*$//'
    berkes · 2010-08-01 13:36:08 3

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    wget -qO - http://i18n.counter.li.org/ | grep 'users registered' | sed 's/.*\<font size=7\>//g' | tr '\>' ' ' | sed 's/<br.*//g' | tr ' ' '\0'
    hunterm · 2010-10-07 03:19:17 4
  • some other options: &delay=1000 &mode=links much more with piggybank as scraper works well with your favourite curses or non-curses http clients


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    svn co http://simile.mit.edu/repository/crowbar/trunk&& cd ./trunk/xulapp/ xulrunner --install-app && Xvfb :1 && DISPLAY=:1 xulrunner application.ini 2>/dev/null 1>/dev/null && wget -O- "127.0.0.1:10000/&url=http://www.facebook.com"
    argv · 2010-10-16 05:12:11 3
  • Just added view with the eog viewer.


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    wget -O xkcd_$(date +%y-%m-%d).png `lynx --dump http://xkcd.com/|grep png`; eog xkcd_$(date +%y-%m-%d).png
    theanalyst · 2010-10-27 13:42:55 3
  • Is a simple script for video streaming a movie


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    cat video.ogg | nc -l -p 4232 & wget http://users.bshellz.net/~bazza/?nombre=name -O - & sleep 10; mplayer http://users.bshellz.net/~bazza/datos/name.ogg
    el_bazza · 2010-11-29 03:34:31 5
  • Substitute that 724349691704 with an UPC of a CD you have at hand, and (hopefully) this oneliner should return the $Artist - $Title, querying discogs.com. Yes, I know, all that head/tail/grep crap can be improved with a single sed command, feel free to send "patches" :D Enjoy! Show Sample Output


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    wget http://www.discogs.com/search?q=724349691704 -O foobar &> /dev/null ; grep \/release\/ foobar | head -2 | tail -1 | sed -e 's/^<div>.*>\(.*\)<\/a><\/div>/\1/' ; rm foobar
    TetsuyO · 2011-01-30 23:34:54 3
  • I wanted to play a song from the shell and get the shell back, I also dont want to store the file if it is not needed. edit, not sure if I need to mention it... killall vlc to stop it Show Sample Output


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    wget http://somesite.com/somestream.pls; cvlc somestream.pls&sleep 5; rm somestream.pls*
    tomjrace · 2011-08-04 19:24:18 3
  • This uses wget instead of curl


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    wget -q -O - http://www.perl.org/get.html | grep -m1 '\.tar\.gz' | sed 's/.*perl-//; s/\.tar\.gz.*//'
    dbbolton · 2011-08-19 23:38:10 3

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    wget ifconfig.me/ip -q -O -
    DamirX · 2011-11-30 08:30:35 3
  • Grabs the current weather in your area (or their best guess of your area). Change the query to your zip code/location (e.g. google.com/search?q=weather+jakarta,+india) to get weather somewhere else. change google.com to google.ca or google.co.uk for metric. Show Sample Output


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    wget -qO- -U '' 'google.com/search?q=weather' | grep -oP '(-)?\d{1,3}\xB0[FC]'
    slaufer · 2012-02-28 22:27:38 362

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    for i in $(wget -O- -U "" "http://wallbase.cc/random/23/e..." --quiet|grep wallpaper/|grep -oe 'http://wallbase.cc[^"]*'); do wget $(wget -O- -U "" $i --quiet|grep -oe 'http://[^"]*\.jpg');done
    mama21mama · 2012-08-19 11:06:30 20
  • This command should be copy-pasted in Windows, but very similar one will work on Linux. It uses wget and sed.


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    wget --no-check-certificate https://code.google.com/p/msysgit/downloads/list -O - 2>nul | sed -n "0,/.*\(\/\/msysgit.googlecode.com\/files\/Git-.*\.exe\).*/s//http:\1/p" | wget -i - -O Git-Latest.exe
    michfield · 2012-11-14 08:17:50 8
  • Sweep and download all mp3 (in French) of "Rendez-vous avec X" (Meet with M. X) of French public radio From 1997 http://rendezvousavecmrx.free.fr/audio/mr_x_1997_01_04.mp3 To 2015 http://rendezvousavecmrx.free.fr/audio/mr_x_2015_06_20.mp3 Balaye et telecharge les episodes depuis 1997 http://rendezvousavecmrx.free.fr/audio/mr_x_1997_01_04.mp3 jusqu'en 2015 http://rendezvousavecmrx.free.fr/audio/mr_x_2015_06_20.mp3


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    wget http://rendezvousavecmrx.free.fr/audio/mr_x_{1997..2015}_{01..12}_{01..31}.mp3
    pascalvaucheret · 2015-08-13 21:34:50 12
  • I've got this posted in one of my .bash_profiles for humor whenever I log in. Show Sample Output


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    wget -qO - snubster.com|sed -n '65p'|awk 'gsub(/<span><br>.*/,"")&&1'|perl -p -e 's:myScroller1.addItem\("<span class=atHeaderOrange>::g;s:</span> <span class=snubFontSmall>::g;s:&quot;:":g;s:^:\n:g;s:$:\n:'
    sil · 2009-02-18 15:05:13 6

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    wget http://checkip.dyndns.org && clear && echo && echo My IP && egrep -o '([[:digit:]]{1,3}\.){3}[[:digit:]]{1,3}' index.html && echo && rm index.html
    onkelchentobi · 2009-08-07 21:21:59 4
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