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

Curl is not installed by default on many common distros anymore. wget always is :)

Uses google api to translate, you can modify the language in which translate modifying the parameter "langpair=|en", the format is language input|language output.

This is a simple command that you can run complex shell scripts via ssh. For instance if you would have to run the same process on several hundred hosts. There is no security so you have to trust the server that is sourcing this script.

A cronjob command line to email someone when a webpages homepage is updated.

allow multiword translations

kaffeine could be replaced by any player able to read mms stream

Need to have rc iso pre-downloaded before running command.

Tested with 9.10 release. Choose whatever torrent client you prefer.

extension to tali713's random fact generator. It takes the output & sends it to notify-osd. Display time is proportional to the lengh of the fact.

Though without infinite time and knowledge of how the site will be designed in the future this may stop working, it still will serve as a simple straight forward starting point.

This uses the observation that the only item marked as strong on the page is the single logical line that includes the italicized fact.

If future revisions of the page show failure, or intermittent failure, one may simply alter the above to read.

The file lastfact, can then be examined whenever the command fails.

Trickle is a voluntary, cooperative bandwidth shaper. it works entirely in userland and is very easy to use.

The most simple application is to limit the bandwidth usage of programs.

Replace *** with the appropiate values

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.

eg:

currency_convert 1 usd inr

You think Expansys in all these countries will sell the HTC Desire for the same price? Well, you'll be surprised. Most of them will be sold at 499.99 EUR but the cheapest can be found in Germany and the most expensive, in Belgium.

This one uses dictionary.com

works from command line

The original was a little bit too complicated for me. This one does not use any variables.

Looks up a word on merriam-webster.com, does a screen scrape for the FIRST audio pronunciation and plays it.

USAGE: Put this one-liner into a shell script (e.g., ~/bin/pronounce) and run it from the command line giving it the word to say:

If the word isn't found in merriam-webster, no audio is played and the script returns an error value. However, M-W is a fairly complete dictionary (better than howjsay.com which won't let you hear how to pronounce naughty words).

ASSUMPTIONS: GNU's sed (which supports -r for extended regular expressions) and Linux's aplay. Aplay can be replaced by any program that can play .WAV files from stdin.

KNOWN BUGS: only the FIRST pronunciation is played, which is problematic if you wanted a particular form (plural, adjectival, etc) of the word. For example, if you run this:

you'll hear a voice saying "onomatopoeia".

Playing the correct form of the word is possible, but doing so might make the screen scraper even more fragile than it already is. (The slightest change to the format of m-w.com could break it).

Usage:

Example:

See this for a list of language codes:

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

Mask the user agent as firefox, recursively download 2 levels deep from a span host with a maximum of 1 redirection, use random wait time and dump all pdf files to myBooksFolder without creating any other directories. Host will have no way of knowing that this is a grabber script.

I constantly need to work on my local computer, thus I need a way to download the codeigniter user guide, this is the wget way I figured.