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Terminal - Commands using wget - 250 results
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
2012-08-19 11:06:30
User: mama21mama
Functions: grep wget
Tags: wallpaper random download
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download wallpaper random

cortesia de

http://blog.mamalibre.com.ar//?q=node/378#comment-622993358

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wget --no-use-server-timestamps $(curl $(curl http://wallbase.cc/random/23/eqeq/1920x1080/0/100/20 | grep 'wallpaper/' | awk -F'"' '{print $2}' | head -n1) | grep -A4 bigwall | grep img | awk -F'"' '{print $2}'); feh --bg-center $(ls -1t | head -n1)
2012-08-14 22:06:27
User: yosh
Functions: awk grep head ls wget
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Random (sfw, 1920x1080) wallpaper from wallbase.cc
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for i in {1..10};do wget $(wget -O- -U "" "http://images.google.com/images?imgsz=xxlarge&hl=en&q=wallpaper+HD&start=$(($RANDOM%900+100))" --quiet | grep -oe 'http://[^"]*\.jpg' | head -1);done
2012-07-26 10:42:13
User: dzup
Functions: grep head wget
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download 10 random wallpapers from google

you may want &hl=en for &hl=es for the language

you may want imgsz=xxlarge for imgsz=large or whatever filter

you may want q=apples or whatever

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while pgrep wget || sudo shutdown -P now; do sleep 1m; done
2012-05-20 17:49:56
User: kev
Functions: shutdown sleep sudo wget
Tags: wget Shutdown
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shutdown if wget exit
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cat urls.txt | wget -i- -T 10 -t 3 --waitretry 1
2012-05-14 06:41:14
User: kev
Functions: cat wget
Tags: wget
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download a list of urls
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wget -O - http://www.reddit.com/r/wallpapers.rss | grep -Eo 'http://i.imgur.com[^&]+jpg' | head -1 | xargs wget -O background.jpg
2012-04-25 11:15:26
User: untitaker
Functions: grep head wget xargs
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set desktop background to highest-rated image from Reddit /r/wallpapers

Doesn't depend on curl and doesn't use thumbnails as wallpaper (which has the unfortunate effect of only allowing imgur links)

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wget -S --spider http://osswin.sourceforge.net/ 2>&1 | grep Mod
2012-04-18 03:43:33
User: dmmst19
Functions: grep wget
Tags: wget headers modified
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Find out how old a web page is

I used to use the Firefox "View page info" feature a lot to determine how stale the web page I was looking at was. Now that I use mostly Chrome I miss that feature, so here is a command line alternative using wget. The -S says to display the server response, the --spider says to not download any files/pages, just fetch the header. The output goes to stderr, so to grep it you use 2>&1 to combine the stderr stream with stdout, the pipe that to grep for Last-Modified.

You can use curl instead if you have it installed, like this:

curl --head -s http://osswin.sourceforge.net | grep Mod
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wget -q ip.nu && cat index.html
2012-03-23 03:14:37
User: VictorBjelkholm
Functions: cat wget
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View external IP
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wget -m -k -K -E http://url/of/web/site
2012-03-19 20:22:05
User: joedistro
Functions: wget
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Download an Entire website with wget
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wget -qO - http://whatismyip.org | tail
2012-03-17 10:13:05
User: Flolagale
Functions: wget
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What is my public IP address

Uses wget standard GNU utility. Prints only your ip.

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for i in $(seq 1 `curl http://megatokyo.com 2>/dev/null|grep current|cut -f6 -d\"`);do wget http://megatokyo.com/`curl http://megatokyo.com/strip/${i} 2>/dev/null|grep src=\"strips\/|cut -f4 -d\"`;done
2012-03-04 22:52:36
User: akira88
Functions: cut grep seq wget
Tags: wget comic
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Download all MegaTokyo strips

A simple script for download all the MegaTokyo strips from the first to the last one

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

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.

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wget http://icanhazip.com -qO-
2012-02-17 15:38:51
User: sreimann
Functions: wget
Tags: wget ip address
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Get your outgoing IP address
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wget -nd -r -l 2 -A jpg,jpeg,png,gif http://website-url.com
2012-01-27 11:06:50
User: unixmonkey26318
Functions: wget
Tags: wget download images
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Download all images from a website in a single folder
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wget -U Mozilla http://example.com/foo.tar.gz
2012-01-18 05:47:14
User: sugy
Functions: wget
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wget - 403 Forbidden Error
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for fn in xkcd*.png xkcd*.jpg; do echo $fn; read xw xh <<<$(identify -format '%w %h' $fn); nn="$(echo $fn | sed 's/xkcd-\([^-]\+\)-.*/\1/')"; wget -q -O xkcd-${nn}.json http://xkcd.com/$nn/info.0.json; tt="$(sed 's/.*"title": "\([^"]\+\)",.*/\1/' ...
2012-01-06 20:26:11
User: fpunktk
Functions: echo read wget
Tags: bash ImageMagick sed identify convert xkcd
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add title and alt-text to your collection of xkcd comics

full command:

for fn in xkcd*.png xkcd*.jpg; do; echo $fn; read xw xh <<<$(identify -format '%w %h' $fn); nn="$(echo $fn | sed 's/xkcd-\([0-9]\+\)-.*/\1/')"; wget -q -O xkcd-${nn}.json http://xkcd.com/$nn/info.0.json; tt="$(sed 's/.*"title": "\([^"]*\)", .*/\1/' xkcd-${nn}.json)"; at="$(sed 's/.*alt": "\(.*\)", .*/\1/' xkcd-${nn}.json)"; convert -background white -fill black -font /usr/share/fonts/truetype/freefont/FreeSansBold.ttf -pointsize 26 -size ${xw}x -gravity Center caption:"$tt" tt.png; convert -background '#FFF9BD' -border 1x1 -bordercolor black -fill black -font /usr/share/fonts/truetype/freefont/FreeSans.ttf -pointsize 16 -size $(($xw - 2))x -gravity Center caption:"$at" at.png; th=$(identify -format '%h' tt.png); ah=$(identify -format '%h' at.png); convert -size ${xw}x$(($xh+$th+$ah+5)) "xc:white" tt.png -geometry +0+0 -composite $fn -geometry +0+$th -composite at.png -geometry +0+$(($th+$xh+5)) -composite ${fn%\.*}_cmp.png; echo -e "$fn $nn $xw $xh $th $ah \n$tt \n$at\n"; done

this assumes that all comics are saved as xkcd-[number]-[title].{png|jpg}.

it will then download the title and alt-text, create pictures from them, and put everything together in a new png-file.

it's not perfect, but it worked for nearly all my comics.

it uses the xkcd-json-interface.

though it's poorly written, it doesn't completely break on http://xkcd.com/859/

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wget -O chart.png 'http://chart.googleapis.com/chart?chs=250x100&chd=t:60,40&cht=p3&chl=Hello|World'
2011-12-10 18:03:16
User: kev
Functions: wget
Tags: google api
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google chart api

http://chart.apis.google.com/chart?chs=450x200&cht=p3&chtt=Browser+Usage+on+Wikimedia&chl=IE%2834.2%%29|Firefox%2823.6%%29|Chrome%2820.6%%29|Safari%2811.2%%29|Opera%285.0%%29|Android%281.9%%29|Other%283.5%%29&chd=t:34.2,23.6,20.6,11.2,5.0,1.9,3.5

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wget ifconfig.me/ip -q -O -
2011-11-30 08:30:35
User: DamirX
Functions: wget
Tags: Network curl ip address
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Get your external IP address
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url="put_url_here";audio=$(youtube-dl -s -e $url);wget -q -O - `youtube-dl -g $url`| ffmpeg -i - -f mp3 -vn -acodec libmp3lame - > "$audio.mp3"
2011-11-15 19:09:52
User: o0110o
Functions: wget
Tags: youtube mp3
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Convert Youtube videos to MP3

Make your own MP3s from Youtube videos.

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wget -A mp3,mpg,mpeg,avi -r -l 3 http://www.site.com/
2011-11-09 10:06:07
User: kev
Functions: wget
Tags: wget
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recursively walk down no more than three levels and grab any file with an extension of mp3, mpg, mpeg, or avi
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tpb() { wget -U Mozilla -qO - $(echo "http://thepiratebay.org/search/$@/0/7/0" | sed 's/ /\%20/g') | grep -o 'http\:\/\/torrents\.thepiratebay\.org\/.*\.torrent' | tac; }
2011-10-26 12:15:55
User: Bonster
Functions: echo grep sed wget
Tags: bash download api url torrent torrents pirate thepiratebay piratebay ash
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ThePirateBay.org torrent search

usage: tpb searchterm

example: tpb the matrix trilogy

This searches for torrents from thepiratebay and displays the top results in reverse order,

so the 1st result is at the bottom instead of the top -- which is better for command line users

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geoip() { wget -qO - http://freegeoip.net/xml/$1 | sed '3,12!d;s/<//g;s/>/: /g;s/\/.*//g' ; }
2011-10-25 21:07:08
User: vando
Functions: sed wget
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geoip information
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wget -b http://dl.google.com/android/android-sdk_r14-linux.tgz
2011-10-19 21:55:25
User: zlemini
Functions: wget
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background a wget download
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expandurl() { wget -S $1 2>&1 | grep ^Location; }
2011-10-18 18:50:54
User: atoponce
Functions: grep wget
Tags: wget
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Expand shortened URLs

This shell function uses wget(1) to show what site a shortened URL is pointing to, even if there are many nested shortened URLs. This is a great way to test whether or not the shortened URL is sending you to a malicious site, or somewhere nasty that you don't want to visit. The sample output is from:

expandurl http://t.co/LDWqmtDM
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wget -O - -q http://whatismyip.org/
2011-10-15 11:36:56
User: ztank1013
Functions: wget
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Get your external IP address

This just output your external IP, no extra characters at the end of line.

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