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wget ? server to server files transfer

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

svnlabs · 2009-12-27 05:23:27 3
Download all files under http://codeigniter.com/user_guide/ to the current directory

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.
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wget -r --no-parent http://codeigniter.com/user_guide/ ; mv codeigniter.com/user_guide/* . ; rm -rf codeigniter.com

jimthunderbird · 2010-03-01 02:37:26 3
Outgoing IP of server
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wget http://www.whatismyip.org --quiet -O - | cat

wr8cr8 · 2010-07-30 08:40:16 13
transform relative URLs (shoddy hack but it works)

The "-k" flag will tell wget to convert links for local browsing; it works with mirroring (ie with "-r") or single-file downloads.
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wget -k $URL

minnmass · 2010-08-21 17:39:53 3
Get all links of a website
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wget -O- -q http://www.nomachine.com/download-package.php?Prod_Id=2067 | sed -n -e 'H;${x;s/\n/ /g;p;}' | sed -e "s/[Hh][Rr][Ee][Ff]=\"/\n/g" | cut -d "\"" -f1 | sort -u | grep deb$

unixmonkey11835 · 2010-09-03 15:13:10 3
if download end,shutdown
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for ((;;)) do pgrep wget ||shutdown -h now; sleep 5; done

lishuai860113 · 2010-12-15 08:51:09 3
Get me only those jpeg files!
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wget --mirror -A.jpg http://www.xs4all.nl/~dassel/wall/

madrasi · 2011-02-08 03:15:35 3
Check your ip public using dyndns.org

This is just a "cut" addicted variant of the previous unixmonkey24730 command...
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wget -O - -q http://checkip.dyndns.org/ | cut -d':' -f2 | cut -d'<' -f1| cut -c2-

ztank1013 · 2011-09-17 13:42:01 4
Get your public IP using chisono.it

The echo at the end is for pretty printing as the output is just the IP address without any html
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wget -O - -q http://www.chisono.it/ip.asp && echo

scanepa · 2011-09-18 15:38:02 3
Get the latest version of phpMyAdmin

This is to get the latest version of phpMyAdmin to support scripts to download the latest version of the software if they want to automatically update. Show Sample Output
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```
3.4.4-all-languages
```
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wget http://tools.web4host.net/versions.tmp --quiet -O - | grep PHPMYADMIN | sed 's/PHPMYADMIN=//' | cat

wr8cr8 · 2011-09-22 04:11:44 3
dont forget commands of old profile
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wget http://www.commandlinefu.com/commands/by/e7__7dal

e7dal · 2011-09-30 09:40:29 4
Get all the reference docs for OS X from Apples Developer Connection site

download every last pdf reference Doc from the Apple Developer Connection, takes a half hour on a fast connection. enjoy!
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wget -nd -nH -r -A pdf -I library/mac/documentation/ http://developer.apple.com/library/mac/navigation/#section=Resource%20Types&topic=Reference

GinoMan2440 · 2011-10-02 04:56:25 9
geoip information
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geoip() { wget -qO - http://freegeoip.net/xml/$1 | sed '3,12!d;s/<//g;s/>/: /g;s/\/.*//g' ; }

vando · 2011-10-25 21:07:08 45
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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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/' ...

fpunktk · 2012-01-06 20:26:11 8
View external IP
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wget -q ip.nu && cat index.html

VictorBjelkholm · 2012-03-23 03:14:37 3
upload video to ompload (* not yet tested, let me know if works)

Like i said, i havent test it yet, all becouse my internet its soo slow, if you try and works please share, also be nice to do it using the direct url link. Show Sample Output
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```
ompload() { wget -O- - "$1" --quiet|curl -# -F file1=@- http://ompldr.org/upload|awk '/Info:|File:|Thumbnail:|BBCode:/{gsub(/<[^<]*?\/?>/,"");$1=$1;print}';}
(04:50:35 PM) dzup: ompload "http://cs532112.userapi.com/u184036981/video/5c27f37f18.360.mp4"
```
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ompload() { wget -O- - "$1" --quiet|curl -# -F file1=@- http://ompldr.org/upload|awk '/Info:|File:|Thumbnail:|BBCode:/{gsub(/<[^<]*?\/?>/,"");$1=$1;print}';}

dzup · 2012-10-19 22:54:55 6
Download a complete podcast

This download a complete audio podcast
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wget -c -v -S -T 100 --tries=0 `curl -s http://ms1.espectador.com/ podcast/espectador/la_venganza_sera_terrible.xml | grep -v xml | grep link | sed 's/]*>//g'`

fmdlc · 2009-03-04 13:12:28 5
Get your public ip
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wget -qO - http://cfaj.freeshell.org/ipaddr.cgi

cfajohnson · 2009-12-10 04:34:57 3

Using wget to receive an XML atom feed of your Gmail inbox

I use this command in my Conky script to display the number of messages in my Gmail inbox and to list the from: and subject: fields. Show Sample Output

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wget -O - 'https://USERNAMEHERE:PASSWORDHERE@mail.google.com/mail/feed/atom' --no-check-certificate

PLA · 2010-09-26 14:47:13 6

Execute extension with chrome

Download Gsplitter extension, and execute it with Chrome ! Or download it here : https://chrome.google.com/extensions/detail/lnlfpoefmdfplomdfppalohfbmlapjjo
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wget -O gsplitter.crx "https://clients2.google.com/service/update2/crx?response=redirect&x=id%3Dlnlfpoefmdfplomdfppalohfbmlapjjo%26uc%26lang%3Den-US&prod=chrome&prodversion=8.0.552.224" ; google-chrome --load-extension gspliter.crx

strzel_a · 2010-12-14 19:12:18 4
Current host external IP

Get external IP of the current machine via http://cmyip.com Show Sample Output
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```
213.230.123.139
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wget http://cmyip.com -O - -o /dev/null | awk '/\<title/ {print $4}'

ruslan · 2011-02-15 05:58:30 4
Download random gifs from gifbin.com

Download a bunch of random animated gifs from http://gifbin.com/
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site="http://gifbin.com/"; for i in $(wget -qO- "$site"random| sed -r "s/^.*(bin\/.+\.gif).*$/\1/m" | grep "^bin"); do wget -c "$site$i"; filename=`basename $i`; [ `identify $filename | wc -l` -gt 1 ] || rm -f $filename; done

az · 2011-02-15 10:05:37 7
Check your ip public using dyndns.org

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```
[v3n0m@localhost]$ wget http://checkip.dyndns.org/ -q -O - | grep -Eo '\<[[:digit:]]{1,3}(\.[[:digit:]]{1,3}){3}\>'
80.254.66.131
[v3n0m@localhost]$
```
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wget http://checkip.dyndns.org/ -q -O - | grep -Eo '\<[[:digit:]]{1,3}(\.[[:digit:]]{1,3}){3}\>'

unixmonkey24730 · 2011-09-17 12:51:06 3
Download some ramdom wallpapers from wallbase.cc
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wb(){ for i in $(wget -O- -U "" "http://wallbase.cc/random/23/eqeq/1920x1080/0/" --quiet|grep wallpaper/|grep -oe 'http://wallbase.[^"]*'); do if (( n > "$1" )); then break;fi;let n++;wget $(wget -O- -U "" $i --quiet|grep -oe 'http://[^"]*\.jpg');done;}

dzup · 2012-08-21 17:00:44 5
redirect wget output to the terminal, instead of a file
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wget -q -O - "$@" <url>

unixx · 2009-04-15 16:10:59 65
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eDirectory LDAP Search for Statistics

Find statistics for an Edirectory server form LDAPsearch. We have a lot more examples at: http://ldapwiki.willeke.com/wiki/Ldapsearch%20Examples The full command got shut off it is: ldapsearch -h ldapserver.willeke.com -p636 -e C:\mydata\treerootcert.der -b "" -s base -D cn=admin,ou=administration,dc=willeke,dc=com -w secretpwd "(objectclass=*)" chainings removeEntryOps referralsReturned listOps modifyRDNOps repUpdatesIn repUpdatesOut strongAuthBinds addEntryOps compareOps wholeSubtreeSearchOps modifyEntryOps searchOps errors simpleAuthBinds inOps oneLevelSearchOps inBytes abandonOps bindSecurityErrors securityErrors unAuthBinds outBytes extendedOps readOps dsaName directoryTreeName vendorVersion vendorName

geoip information

That makes a function you can put in your ~/.bashrc to run it when you need in any term with an IP as argument

Extract content between the first " and the last " double quotes

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Symlink all files from a base directory to a target directory

Symlinks all files in the base directory to the target directory then lists all of the created symlinks.

Display all shell functions set in the current shell environment

Uses the shell builtin `declare` with the '-f' flag to output only functions to grep out only the function names. You can use it as an alias or function like so: alias shfunctions="builtin declare -f | command grep --color=never -E '^[a-zA-Z_]+\ '" shfunctions () { builtin declare -f | command grep --color=never -E '^[a-zA-Z_]+\ '; }

coloured shell prompt

This coloured prompt will show: username in green, grey "@" sign, hostname in red, current directory in yellow, typed commands in green.

Smart renaming

A powerfull way to rename file using sed groups. & stand for the matched expression. \1 referes to the first group between parenthesis. \2 to the second.

Comment out all lines in a file beginning with string

Insert a comment on command line for reminder

Comments can be used directly on the command line so I can save in the history a brief description of what command does.

Convert seconds to [DD:][HH:]MM:SS

Converts any number of seconds into days, hours, minutes and seconds. sec2dhms() { declare -i SS="$1" D=$(( SS / 86400 )) H=$(( SS % 86400 / 3600 )) M=$(( SS % 3600 / 60 )) S=$(( SS % 60 )) [ "$D" -gt 0 ] && echo -n "${D}:" [ "$H" -gt 0 ] && printf "%02g:" "$H" printf "%02g:%02g\n" "$M" "$S" }

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