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Commands using wget

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wget http://cmyip.com -O - -o /dev/null | grep -Po '[0-9]+\.[0-9]+\.[0-9]+\.[0-9]+'
2011-02-28 16:46:14
User: ruslan
Functions: grep wget
Tags: grep external ip
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External IP address
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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
2011-02-15 10:05:37
User: az
Functions: grep rm sed wc wget
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Download random gifs from gifbin.com

Download a bunch of random animated gifs from http://gifbin.com/

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wget http://cmyip.com -O - -o /dev/null | awk '/\<title/ {print $4}'
2011-02-15 05:58:30
User: ruslan
Functions: awk wget
Tags: external ip
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Current host external IP

Get external IP of the current machine via http://cmyip.com

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wget --mirror -A.jpg http://www.xs4all.nl/~dassel/wall/
2011-02-08 03:15:35
User: madrasi
Functions: wget
Tags: wget
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Get me only those jpeg files!
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wget http://www.discogs.com/search?q=724349691704 -O foobar &> /dev/null ; grep \/release\/ foobar | head -2 | tail -1 | sed -e 's/^<div>.*>\(.*\)<\/a><\/div>/\1/' ; rm foobar
2011-01-30 23:34:54
User: TetsuyO
Functions: grep head rm sed tail wget
Tags: sed wget grep discogs UPC
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Find artist and title of a music cd, UPC code given (first result only)

Substitute that 724349691704 with an UPC of a CD you have at hand, and (hopefully) this oneliner should return the $Artist - $Title, querying discogs.com.

Yes, I know, all that head/tail/grep crap can be improved with a single sed command, feel free to send "patches" :D

Enjoy!

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mplayer $(wget -q -O - "http://europarse.real.com/hurl/gratishurl.ram?pid=eu_aljazeera&amp;file=al_jazeera_en_lo.rm" | sed -e 's#lo.rm#hi.rm#')
2011-01-30 14:36:37
User: torrid
Functions: sed wget
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Watch Al Jazeera Livestream directly in mplayer #jan25

One cannot call the high quality livestream directly, but command this gives you a session ID and the high quality stream. #egypt #jan25

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wget http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQw4w9WgXcQ -qO- | sed -n "/fmt_url_map/{s/[\'\"\|]/\n/g;p}" | sed -n '/^fmt_url_map/,/videoplayback/p' | sed -e :a -e '$q;N;5,$D;ba' | tr -d '\n' | sed -e 's/\(.*\),\(.\)\{1,3\}/\1/' | wget -i - -O surprise.flv
2011-01-25 04:19:06
User: Eno
Functions: sed tr wget
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Download Youtube video with wget!

Nothing special required, just wget, sed & tr!

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wget http://URL/FILE.tar.gz -O - | tar xfz -
2011-01-18 12:17:16
User: theturingmachine
Functions: tar wget
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Download a file and uncompress it while it downloads

This will uncompress the file while it's being downloaded which makes it much faster

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wget -e robots=off -E -H -k -K -p http://<page>
2011-01-07 10:38:24
User: rdc
Functions: wget
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Use wget to download one page and all it's requisites for offline viewing
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wget -qO- www.commandlinefu.com/commands/by/PhillipNordwall | awk -F\> '/num-votes/{S+=$2; I++}END{print S/I}'
2010-12-29 22:35:28
User: PhillipNordwall
Functions: awk wget
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Find a CommandlineFu users average command rating
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head -100000 /dev/urandom | strings|tr '[A-Z]' '[a-z]'|sort >temp.txt && wget -q http://www.mavi1.org/web_security/wordlists/webster-dictionary.txt -O-|tr '[A-Z]' '[a-z]'|sort >temp2.txt&&comm -12 temp.txt temp2.txt
2010-12-26 11:04:42
User: marssi
Functions: head sort tr wget
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Look for English words in /dev/urandom

Little faster alternative.

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wget -qO - http://ngrams.googlelabs.com/datasets | grep -E href='(.+\.zip)' | sed -r "s/.*href='(.+\.zip)'.*/\1/" | uniq | while read line; do `wget $line`; done
2010-12-20 17:46:04
User: sexyprout
Functions: grep read sed uniq wget
Tags: sed wget grep
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Download all data from Google Ngram Viewer

To learn more about Google Ngram Viewer: http://ngrams.googlelabs.com/info

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wget -q -nd http://www.biranchi.com/ip.php; echo "Your external ip is : `cat ip.php`"
2010-12-20 09:53:59
User: pebkac
Functions: echo wget
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get you public ip address

This is a convinient way to do it in scripts. You also want to rm the ip.php file afterwards

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for ((;;)) do pgrep wget ||shutdown -h now; sleep 5; done
2010-12-15 08:51:09
User: lishuai860113
Functions: shutdown sleep wget
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if download end,shutdown
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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
2010-12-14 19:12:18
User: strzel_a
Functions: wget
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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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function 4get () { curl $1 | grep -i "File<a href" | awk -F '<a href="' '{print $4}' | awk -F '" ' '{print $1}' | xargs wget }
2010-12-11 09:01:32
User: gml
Functions: awk grep wget xargs
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Download all images from a 4chan thread

Useful for ripping wallpaper from 4chan.org/wg

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cd /usr/src ; wget http://www.rarlab.com/rar/unrarsrc-4.0.2.tar.gz ; tar xvfz unrarsrc-4.0.2.tar.gz ; cd unrar ; ln -s makefile.unix Makefile ; make clean ; make ; make install
2010-12-09 10:35:28
User: yababay
Functions: cd ln make tar wget
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Install unrar on Linux box from sources
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wget -qO - http://www.commandlinefu.com/commands/random/plaintext | sed -n '1d; /./p'
2010-12-05 15:32:14
User: dramaturg
Functions: sed wget
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Retrieve a random command from the commandlinefu.com API

Seeing that we get back plain text anyway we don't need lynx. Also the sed-part removes the credit line.

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wget -qO- "VURL" | grep -o "googleplayer.swf?videoUrl\\\x3d\(.\+\)\\\x26thumbnailUrl\\\x3dhttp" | grep -o "http.\+" | sed -e's/%\([0-9A-F][0-9A-F]\)/\\\\\x\1/g' | xargs echo -e | sed 's/.\{22\}$//g' | xargs wget -O OUPUT_FILE
2010-12-03 17:27:08
User: unixmonkey14750
Functions: echo grep sed wget xargs
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Video Google download

Download google video with wget. Or, if you wish, pass video URL to ie mplayer to view as stream.

1. VURL: replace with url. I.e. http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=12312312312312313#

2. OUPUT_FILE : optionally change to a more suited name. This is the downloaded file. I.e. foo.flv

# Improvements greatly appreciated. (close to my first linux command after ls -A :) )

Breakedown pipe by pipe:

1. wget: html from google, pass to stdout

2. grep: get the video url until thumbnailUrl (not needed)

3. grep: Strip off everything before http://

4. sed: urldecode

5. echo: hex escapes

6. sed: stipr of tailing before thumbnailUrl

7. wget: download. Here one could use i.e. mplayer or other...

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wget -O LICENSE.txt http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-3.0.txt
2010-12-01 11:38:55
User: tommed
Functions: wget
Tags: development license gpl
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Add a GPL license file to your project
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wget --auth-no-challenge --server-response -O- $url 2>&1 | grep "Cookie" | sed "s/^ Set-//g" > cookie.txt; wget --auth-no-challenge --server-response --http-user="user" --http-password="pw" --header="$(cat cookie.txt)" -O- $url
2010-12-01 11:24:35
User: glaudiston
Functions: grep sed wget
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resolving basic authentication problem(401) with wget

I have a server with a php requiring basic authentication, like this:

header('WWW-Authenticate: Basic realm="do auth"');

header('HTTP/1.0 401 Unauthorized');

...?>

And the basic authentication in wget do not worked:

wget --auth-no-challenge --http-user="username" --http-password="password" -O- "http://url" wget --keep-session-cookies --save-cookies=cookies.txt --load-cookies=cokies.txt --http-user="username" --http-password="password" -O- "http://url"

I always received the 401 Authorization failed.

The saved cookie is always empty.

With my way, I received the header from the server and save the cookie, then resend the session cookie with authentication data

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cat video.ogg | nc -l -p 4232 & wget http://users.bshellz.net/~bazza/?nombre=name -O - & sleep 10; mplayer http://users.bshellz.net/~bazza/datos/name.ogg
2010-11-29 03:34:31
User: el_bazza
Functions: cat sleep wget
Tags: video audio ogg mplayer stream streaming vorbis Videos webcam vlc theora
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Send and streamming video to web

Is a simple script for video streaming a movie

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wget -q -O- --header\="Accept-Encoding: gzip" <url> | gunzip > out.html
2010-11-27 22:14:42
User: ashish_0x90
Functions: gunzip wget
Tags: wget encoding gunzip gzip
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Get gzip compressed web page using wget.

Get gzip compressed web page using wget.

Caution: The command will fail in case website doesn't return gzip encoded content, though most of thw websites have gzip support now a days.

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sudo apt-add-repository 'deb http://archive.offensive-security.com pwnsauce main microverse macroverse restricted universe multiverse' && wget -q http://archive.offensive-security.com/backtrack.gpg -O- | sudo apt-key add -
2010-11-16 18:23:48
User: kzh
Functions: sudo wget
Tags: Debian
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BackTrack Repos

Add the BackTrack repositories to your Debian based GNU/Linux distribution. Thanks to http://it-john.com/home/technology/linux-technology/add-back-track-4-repo-to-ubuntu/

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wget `youtube-dl -g 'http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-S3O9qi2E2U'` -O - | tee -a parachute-ending.flv | mplayer -cache 8192 -
2010-10-28 13:51:59
User: artagnon
Functions: tee wget
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Stream and save Youtube video

Watch a video while it's downloading. It's additionally saved to the disk for later viewing.

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