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wget -q -O - `youtube-dl -b -g $url`| ffmpeg -i - -f mp3 -vn -acodec libmp3lame -| mpg123 -
2009-11-07 13:45:13
User: torrid
Functions: mpg123 wget
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Play music from youtube without download
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wget -q -O - checkip.dyndns.org|sed -e 's/.*Current IP Address: //' -e 's/<.*$//'
2009-11-06 10:18:26
User: sanjaygoel
Functions: sed wget
Tags: Network IP external
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Get your external IP address
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wget -O - -q ip.boa.nu
2009-11-04 22:22:04
User: xeor
Functions: wget
Tags: Network IP external
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Get your external IP address

Using our beloved wget

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clfavs(){ URL="http://www.commandlinefu.com";wget -O - --save-cookies c --post-data "username=$1&password=$2&submit=Let+me+in" $URL/users/signin;for i in `seq 0 25 $3`;do wget -O - --load-cookies c $URL/commands/favourites/plaintext/$i >>$4;done;rm -f c;}
2009-09-30 16:43:08
User: suhasgupta
Functions: c++ wget
Tags: wget commandlinefu
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backup all your commandlinefu.com favourites to a plaintext file

Usage: clfavs username password num_favourite_commands file_in_which_to_backup

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wget 'link of a Picasa WebAlbum' -O - |perl -e'while(<>){while(s/"media":{"content":\[{"url":"(.+?\.JPG)//){print "$1\n"}}' |wget -w1 -i -
2009-09-27 14:36:27
User: aciancone
Functions: perl wget
Tags: photos download rss picasa
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Go get those photos from a Picasa album
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wget -q -O - 'http://wap.weather.gov.hk/' | sed -r 's/<[^>]+>//g;/^UV/q' | tail -n4
2009-09-25 02:36:46
User: dakunesu
Functions: sed tail wget
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get Hong Kong weather infomation from HK Observatory

"get Hong Kong weather infomation from HK Observatory

From Hong Kong Observatory wap site ;)"

other one showed alot of blank lines for me

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wget -q -O - 'http://wap.weather.gov.hk/' | sed -r 's/<[^>]+>//g;/^UV/q' | grep -v '^$'
2009-09-25 02:21:05
User: twfcc
Functions: grep sed wget
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get Hong Kong weather infomation from HK Observatory

From Hong Kong Observatory wap site ;)

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wget http://twitter.com/help/test.json -q -O -
2009-09-15 23:22:26
User: ninadsp
Functions: wget
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Ping Twitter to check if you can connect

Returns a JSON object, by connecting to the 'test' endpoint of the Twitter API. Simplest way to check if you can connect to Twitter. Output also available in XML, use '/help/test.xml' for that

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wget -q --spider http://server/cgi/script
2009-09-11 05:33:48
User: ashawley
Functions: wget
Tags: wget
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Run remote web page, but don't save the results

I don't know if the --spider option works to execute a script, but it might be worth trying. Note that the Drupal project uses the following in a cron job.

wget -O - -q http://localhost/drupal/cron.php

The output is sent to standard out so it can be logged by cron.

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wget -O /dev/null http://www.google.com
2009-09-10 14:43:57
User: topher1kenobe
Functions: wget
Tags: wget
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Run remote web page, but don't save the results

I have a remote php file that I want to run once an hour. I set up cron to run this wget. I don't really care about what's in the file though, I don't want to save the results, so I run the -O and send it to /dev/null

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wget -nv http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linux -O- | egrep -o "http://[^[:space:]]*.jpg" | xargs -P 10 -r -n 1 wget -nv
2009-08-31 18:37:33
User: syssyphus
Functions: egrep wget xargs
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Parallel file downloading with wget

xargs can be used in this manner to download multiple files at a time, and xargs will in this case run 10 processes at a time and initiate a new one when the number running falls below 10.

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wget --reject html,htm --accept pdf,zip -rl1 url
2009-08-30 14:05:09
User: linuxswords
Functions: wget
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get all pdf and zips from a website using wget

If the site uses https, use:

wget --reject html,htm --accept pdf,zip -rl1 --no-check-certificate https-url
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wget -U "QuickTime/7.6.2 (qtver=7.6.2;os=Windows NT 5.1Service Pack 3)" `echo http://movies.apple.com/movies/someHDmovie_720p.mov | sed 's/\([0-9][0-9]\)0p/h\10p/'`
2009-08-29 00:29:40
User: deadrabbit
Functions: sed wget
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Download Apple movie trailers

Copy the link to an HD movie trailer in to this command. It's more eleganant if it's put in a to a script, taking the URL as input.

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mirror=ftp://somemirror.com/with/alot/versions/but/no/latest/link; latest=$(curl -l $mirror/ 2>/dev/null | grep util | tail -1); wget $mirror/$latest
2009-08-24 15:58:31
User: peshay
Functions: grep tail wget
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get the latest version

to download latest version of "util", maybe insert a sort if they wont be shown in right order.

curl lists all files on mirror, grep your util, tail -1 will gets the one lists on the bottom and get it with wget

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for ((i=1; i<67; i++)) do wget http://www.phrack.org/archives/tgz/phrack${i}.tar.gz -q; done
2009-08-20 23:27:01
User: Abiden
Functions: wget
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Download all Phrack .tar.gzs

This will download all the phracks! Enjoy!

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wget -q -O- PAGE_URL | grep -o 'WORD_OR_STRING' | wc -w
2009-08-17 13:08:46
User: evalinux
Functions: grep wc wget
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count the appearance of a word or a string in a given webpage

Can be used to help perform some SEO optimizations.

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wget -O - -q icanhazip.com
2009-08-14 10:24:30
User: andrepuel
Functions: wget
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return external ip

I dont have curl or links installed, so I use wget with write file as standard out.

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wget -qO - http://www.commandlinefu.com/feed/tenup | xmlstarlet sel -T -t -o '&lt;x&gt;' -n -t -m rss/channel/item -o '&lt;y&gt;' -n -v description -o '&lt;/y&gt;' -n -t -o '&lt;/x&gt;' | xmlstarlet sel -T -t -m x/y -v code -n
2009-08-14 02:44:00
User: fsilveira
Functions: wget
Tags: commandlinefu xmlstarlet rss
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print latest (top 10, top 3 or *) commandlinefu.com commands

This lengthy cryptic line will print the latest top 10 commandlinefu.com posts without their summaries. To print also their respective summaries use the following (even bigger) command line:

wget -qO - http://www.commandlinefu.com/feed/tenup | xmlstarlet sel -T -t -o '<doc>' -n -t -m rss/channel/item -o '<item>' -n -o '<title>' -v title -o '</title>' -n -o '<description>' -v description -o '</description>' -n -o '</item>' -n -t -o '</doc>' | xmlstarlet sel -T -t -m doc/item -v description/code -n -v title -n -n

It is recommended to include this line into a shell script to be easily run, as I do myself. You could also use the following URLs to browse the top 3 commands:

wget -qO - http://www.commandlinefu.com/feed/threeup | xmlstarlet ...

.. or all others:

wget -qO - http://feeds2.feedburner.com/Command-line-fu | xmlstarlet ...

PS: You need to install "xmlstarlet" to run it. It is found in Debian APT repositories (apt-get install xmlstarlet) or under the http://xmlstar.sourceforge.net/ URL.

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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
2009-08-07 21:21:59
User: onkelchentobi
Functions: clear echo egrep rm wget
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Get your external IP address
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wget -O - http://checkip.dyndns.org|sed 's/[^0-9.]//g'
2009-08-06 12:47:32
User: thundernode
Functions: sed wget
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Get your external IP address
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wget --spider -v http://www.server.com/path/file.ext
2009-08-04 22:27:54
User: loetje
Functions: wget
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use wget to check if a remote file exists
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wget `lynx -dump http://www.ebow.com/ebowtube.php | grep .flv$ | sed 's/[[:blank:]]\+[[:digit:]]\+\. //g'`
2009-08-02 14:09:53
User: spaceyjase
Functions: grep sed wget
Tags: bash sed wget grep lynx flv
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Grab all .flv files from a webpage to the current working directory

I wanted all the 'hidden' .flv files from the http link in the command line; wget seemed appropriate, fed with output from lynx, grep the flv files and the normalised via sed (to remove the numeric bullet). Similar to the 'Grab mp3 files' fu. Replace link with your own, grep arg with something more interesting ;) See here for something along the same lines...

http://www.commandlinefu.com/commands/view/1006/grab-mp3-files-from-your-favorite-netcasts-mp3blog-or-sites-that-often-have-good-mp3s

Hope you find it useful! Improvements welcome, naturally.

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sudo wget -c "http://nmap.org/dist/nmap-5.00.tar.bz2" && bzip2 -cd nmap-5.00.tar.bz2 | tar xvf - && cd nmap-5.00 && ./configure && make && sudo make install
2009-07-26 11:36:53
User: hemanth
Functions: bzip2 cd make sudo tar wget
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Install NMAP 5.0 ,Short and sweet command to do it

Just copy and paste the code in your terminal.

Note : sudo apt-get for debian versions , change as per your requirement .

Source : www.h3manth.com

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wget -q -O - 'URL/full?orderby=starttime&singleevents=true&start-min=2009-06-01&start-max=2009-07-31' | perl -lane '@m=$_=~m/<title type=.text.>(.+?)</g;@a=$_=~m/startTime=.(2009.+?)T/g;shift @m;for ($i=0;$i<@m;$i++){ print $m[$i].",".$a[$i];}';
2009-07-23 14:48:54
User: unixmonkey4704
Functions: perl wget
Tags: perl wget google google calendar
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get events from google calendar for a given dates range

substitute the URL with your private/public XML url from calendar sharing settings

substitute the dates YYYY-mm-dd

adjust the perl parsing part for your needs

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wget <URL> -O- | wget -i -
2009-07-17 17:01:19
User: hemanth
Functions: wget
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Donwload media from *.rm from an url of type htttp://.../*.ram
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