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Commands using wget

Terminal - Commands using wget - 219 results

wget http://domain.com/file{1..100}

2010-01-12 14:28:04

User: wincus

Functions: wget

Tags: bash bash tricks

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download file1 file2 file3 file4 .... file 100

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wget -H -r ?level=1 -k -p http://www.domain.com/folder/

2009-12-27 05:23:27

User: svnlabs

Functions: wget

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wget ? server to server files transfer

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wget -O - http://example.com/a.gz | tar xz

2009-12-20 02:38:12

User: pornel

Functions: tar wget

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Extract tarball from internet without local saving

Use `tar xj` for bzip2 archives.

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wget -q -O - http://someonewhocares.org/hosts/ | grep ^127 >> /etc/hosts

2009-12-14 17:11:16

User: torrid

Functions: grep wget

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Block the 6700 worst spamhosts

The above url contains over 6700 of the common ad websites. The command just pastes these into your /etc/hosts.

wget -qO - http://cfaj.freeshell.org/ipaddr.cgi

2009-12-10 04:34:57

User: cfajohnson

Functions: wget

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Get your public ip

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wget -q http://dynamic.xkcd.com/comic/random/ -O-| sed -n '/<img src="http:\/\/imgs.xkcd.com\/comics/{s/.*$http:.*$" t.*/\1/;p}' | awk '{system ("wget -q " $1 " -O- | display -title $(basename " $1") -write /tmp/$(basename " $1")");}'

2009-12-09 13:41:25

User: laugg

Functions: awk sed wget

Tags: sed awk wget comic

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View a random xkcd comic

Only need to install Image Magick package.

Display a xkcd comic with its title and save it in /tmp directory

If you prefer to view the newest xkcd, use this command:

wget -q http://xkcd.com/ -O-| sed -n '/<img src="http:\/\/imgs.xkcd.com\/comics/{s/.*\(http:.*\)" t.*/\1/;p}' | awk '{system ("wget -q " $1 " -O- | display -title $(basename " $1") -write /tmp/$(basename " $1")");}'

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wget -O - -q http://www.azlyrics.com/lyrics/abba/takeachanceonme.html | sed -e 's/[cC]hance/dump/g' > ~/tdom.htm && firefox ~/tdom.htm

2009-12-04 22:56:00

User: tighe

Functions: sed wget

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Make ABBA better (requires firefox)

ABBA would be more entertaining if they sang this.

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wget `lynx --dump http://xkcd.com/|grep png`

2009-12-03 23:10:22

User: metalx1000

Functions: grep wget

Tags: bash wget lynx curl function xkcd comic webcomic

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View the newest xkcd comic.

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wget -t inf -k -r -l 3 -p -m http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/archivepix.html

2009-12-03 10:27:57

User: ninadsp

Functions: wget

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Mirror the NASA Astronomy Picture of the Day Archive

Mirror the entire NASA Astronomy Picture of the Day archive, all the way from 1995. The archive is close to 2.5 GB, with lots of files, so give it some time. The logs can be redirected to a file using '-o somefile'. You might also want to try '-nH' and the '--cut-dirs' options

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xkcd(){ wget -qO- http://xkcd.com/|tee >(feh $(grep -Po '(?<=")http://imgs[^/]+/comics/[^"]+\.\w{3}'))|grep -Po '(?<=(\w{3})" title=").*(?=" alt)';}

2009-11-27 09:11:47

User: eightmillion

Functions: grep tee wget

Tags: bash curl function xkcd comic webcomic

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View the newest xkcd comic.

This function displays the latest comic from xkcd.com. One of the best things about xkcd is the title text when you hover over the comic, so this function also displays that after you close the comic.

To get a random xkcd comic, I also use the following:

xkcdrandom(){ wget -qO- dynamic.xkcd.com/comic/random|tee >(feh $(grep -Po '(?<=")http://imgs[^/]+/comics/[^"]+\.\w{3}'))|grep -Po '(?<=(\w{3})" title=").*(?=" alt)';}

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while true; do wget -r -l1 --no-clobber -A.txt http://911.wikileaks.org/files/index.html; done; cat *.txt | grep pass

2009-11-26 23:38:44

User: Cowboy

Functions: cat grep wget

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Passwords from 9/11 tragedy pager intercepts (Yeah! Plain text! From wikileaks.net)

http://www.reddit.com/r/reddit.com/comments/a7xpt/conspiracy_theories_commence_wikileaks_to_release/

wget -qO - http://www.sputnick-area.net/ip;echo

2009-11-20 23:10:31

User: cfajohnson

Functions: wget

Tags: Network IP external

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Get your external IP address

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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

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

-6

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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

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

-1

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get Hong Kong weather infomation from HK Observatory

From Hong Kong Observatory wap site ;)

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

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.

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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