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wget with resume

I couldn't find this on the site and it's a useful switch. Great for large files. Show Sample Output
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wget -c https://www.google.com/images/srpr/logo3w.png
```
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wget -c or wget --continue

sonic · 2013-02-17 21:12:00 3
MPD + Digitally Imported

1.- Enter into the playlist path. 2.- Run the command. 3.- Playlists created!
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wget -q -O - http://listen.di.fm/public2 | sed 's/},{/\n/g' | perl -n -e '/"key":"([^"]*)".*"playlist":"([^"]*)"/; print "$1\n"; system("wget -q -O - $2 | grep -E '^File' | cut -d= -f2 > di_$1.m3u")'

Zort · 2013-02-20 03:37:41 9
Download YouTube Videos using wget and youtube-dl and just using the video link

in place of "output-filename.mp4" put the name you want the file to be named with. in place of "youtube-video-link" put the link of the Video page eg: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AclA-7YntvE in place of "format-number" put the number of the file format you would like How to get the "format-number" to get format number type in below command before running this command youtube-dl -F "youtube-video-link" and it will list all the available formats with the format number, like to download in 360p mp4 use the number "18" To automatically let it fetch the best quality available just remove the -f "format-number" and you are good to go. Show Sample Output
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```
Connecting to r1---sn-cvh7zn76.c.youtube.com (r1---sn-cvh7zn76.c.youtube.com)|173.194.52.134|:80... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK
Length: 7562470 (7.2M) [video/mp4]
Saving to: ?output-filename.mp4?

100%[======================================>] 75,62,470   59.4KB/s   in 2m 0s  

2013-05-19 21:44:57 (61.6 KB/s) - ?output-filename.mp4? saved [7562470/7562470]
```
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wget -O "output-filename.mp4" $( youtube-dl -g -f "format-number" "youtube-video-link" )

unixmonkey57804 · 2013-05-19 16:25:30 14
Download Englishword pronounciation as mp3 file
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word="apple"; wget http://ssl.gstatic.com/dictionary/static/sounds/de/0/$word.mp3

oldo · 2013-07-31 19:42:24 10
Display a random crass ascii art from www.asciiartfarts.com

Optionally, pipe the output into http://sed.sourceforge.net/grabbag/scripts/html2iso.sed Or: wget -qO - http://www.asciiartfarts.com/random.cgi | sed -n '//,//p' | sed -n '/ Show Sample Output
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```
Just run it [NSFW]
```
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wget -qO - http://www.asciiartfarts.com/random.cgi | sed -n '/<pre>/,/<\/pre>/p' | sed -n '/<table*/,/<\/table>/p' | sed '1d' | sed '$d' | recode html..ascii

krunktron · 2013-08-17 19:42:47 9
External IP (raw data)

can be used in script like : echo $(wget -qO- http://utils.admin-linux.fr/ip.php) Show Sample Output
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```
XX.YY.ZZ.TT
```
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wget -qO- http://utils.admin-linux.fr/ip.php

fhh · 2013-09-17 20:38:22 6
Download an entire website from a specific folder on down
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wget --recursive --no-clobber --page-requisites --html-extension --convert-links --domains website.org --no-parent www.website.com/folder

fivestones · 2013-10-20 04:46:26 26
use google's text-to-speech and play in media player
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say() { wget -q -U Mozilla -O output.mp3 "http://translate.google.com/translate_tts?ie=UTF-8&tl=en&q=$1" open output.mp3 &>/dev/null || xdg-open output.mp3 &>/dev/null }

runvnc · 2014-04-17 07:35:49 8
Google's Text-To-Speech in command line

Improved google text-to-speech function. Allows to specify language, plays sound in terminal. Automatically removes downloaded file after successfully processing. Usage: say LANGUAGE TEXT Examples: say en "This is a test." say pl "To jest test"
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function say { wget -q -U Mozilla -O google-tts.mp3 "http://translate.google.com/translate_tts?ie=UTF-8&tl=$1&q=$2" open google-tts.mp3 &>/dev/null || mplayer google-tts.mp3 &>/dev/null; rm google-tts.mp3; }

Zath · 2014-08-01 23:43:16 16
wget progress bar with customized data size for dots
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wget blah --progress=dot -e dotbytes=100M

alikhalil · 2014-12-24 10:22:11 9
Update IP filter for qBittorrent

Downloads Bluetack's level 1 IP blocklist in .p2p format, suitable for various Bittorrent clients.
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wget -O - http://list.iblocklist.com/\?list\=ydxerpxkpcfqjaybcssw\&fileformat\=p2p\&archiveformat\=gz | gunzip > ~/ipfilter.p2p

lordtoran · 2015-10-11 13:04:08 13
Connect to FreeWifi hotspot (France) and keep the connection active

(In French) Connection aux hotspots FreeWifi, et maintien de la connection active
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while true ; do wget --quiet --no-check-certificate --post-data 'login=my_account_number&password=my_password&submit=Valider' 'https://wifi.free.fr/Auth' -O '/dev/null' ; sleep 600; done

pascalvaucheret · 2016-07-23 16:34:42 15
Grab mp3 files from your favorite netcasts, mp3blog, or sites that often have good mp3s

This was gotten from http://www.veen.com/jeff/archives/000573.html. The line will grab all the mp3 files on the urls listed in text file sourceurls.txt (one url per line) . A much more complete breakdown of the line can be found at the web site mentioned above.
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wget -r -l1 -H -t1 -nd -N -np -A.mp3 -erobots=off -i ~/sourceurls.txt

tomhiggins · 2009-02-19 03:52:47 4
View the newest xkcd comic.
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wget `lynx --dump http://xkcd.com/|grep png`

metalx1000 · 2009-12-03 23:10:22 3
download the contents of a remote folder in the current local folder
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wget -r -l1 -np -nd http://yoururl.com/yourfolder/

tanj · 2010-01-14 16:22:44 4
Download full FLAC albums from archive.org

The only zipped version of an album available for download is the lossy mp3 version. To download lossless files, because of their size, you must download them individually. This command scrapes the page for all the FLAC (or also SHN) files.
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wget -rc -A.flac --tries=5 http://archive.org/the/url/of/the/album

meunierd · 2010-01-20 07:36:25 4
Download all PDFs from an authenificated website

Replace *** with the appropiate values
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wget -r -np -nd -A.pdf --user *** --password *** http://www.domain.tld/courses/***/download/

saerdnaer · 2010-03-28 09:26:49 4
Automatically download Ubuntu 10.04 when available

Tested with 9.10 release. Choose whatever torrent client you prefer.
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while true; do if wget http://releases.ubuntu.com/10.04/ubuntu-10.04-desktop-i386.iso.torrent; then ktorrent --silent ubuntu-10.04-desktop-i386.iso.torrent ; date; break; else sleep 5m; fi; done

ppaschka · 2010-04-29 13:22:54 7
Daily watch "question pour un champion" (French TV show)

kaffeine could be replaced by any player able to read mms stream
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kaffeine $(wget -qO- "http://questions-pour-un-champion.france3.fr/emission/index-fr.php?page=video&type_video=quotidiennes&video_courante=$(date +%Y%m%d)" | grep -o "mms.*wmv" | uniq)

fbone · 2010-04-29 17:59:06 3
command line fu roulette

retrieves the html from a random command line fu page, then finds commands on the page and prints them alternatively, pipe to bash (add "| bash" to the end) to execute the command (very risky) edit: had to adjust to properly display the portion that replaces HTML characters (e.g. " -> ")
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wget -qO - www.commandlinefu.com/commands/random | grep "<div class=\"command\">" | sed 's/<[^>]*>//g; s/^[ \t]*//; s/"/"/g; s/</</g; s/>/>/g; s/&/\&/g'

smop · 2010-08-12 23:58:24 9
Download and install the newest dropbox beta
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wget http://forums.dropbox.com && wget $(cat index.html|grep "Latest Forum Build"|cut -d"\"" -f2) && wget $(cat topic.php*|grep "Linux x86:"|cut -d"\"" -f2|sort -r|head -n1) && rm -rf ~/.dropbox* && rm index.html *.php* && tar zxvf dropbox-*.tar.gz -C ~/

kjell81d · 2010-08-28 09:23:42 3
translate with google, get all translations

the google-api gives you only one translation which is sometimes insufficent. this function gives you all translations, so you can choose which one fits best.
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translate() { echo $1: $(wget -q -O - 'http://www.google.de/dictionary?source=translation&q='$1'&langpair=en|de' | grep '^<span class="dct-tt">.*</span>$' | sed 's!<span class="dct-tt">$.*$</span>!\1, !'); }

fpunktk · 2010-09-02 00:08:06 3
Downlaoad websites to 5 level and browse offline!

Download Websites to 5 Level and browse offline! -k -> convert-links (to browse offline) -r -> recursive download -l 5 -> level 5 example. http://gentoo-install.com :-)
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wget -k -r -l 5 http://gentoo-install.com

fecub · 2010-09-03 01:42:50 4
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 Show Sample Output
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```
--2010-12-01 09:18:49--  http://your.url/
Connecting to ...:80... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response...
  HTTP/1.1 200 OK
...
  Content-Type: text/html
Length: 1715 (1.7K) [text/html]
Saving to: `STDOUT'
...
<HTML>
...
```
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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

glaudiston · 2010-12-01 11:24:35 4
Download all data from Google Ngram Viewer

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

sexyprout · 2010-12-20 17:46:04 207
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Drop all tables from a database, without deleting it

Uses two comands, requieres mysqldump, but works as expected.

kill some process (same as others) but parsing to a variable

Kills a process matching program. I suggest using $ pgrep -fl program to avoid over-killings Nice the following: kills all bash process owned by guest $ pkill -9 -f bash -u guest

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" }

Display a block of text: multi-line grep with perl

-n reads input, line by line, in a loop sending to $_ Equivalent to while () { mycode } -e execute the following quoted string (i.e. do the following on the same line as the perl command) the elipses .. operator behaves like a range, remembering the state from line to line.

Which processes are listening on a specific port (e.g. port 80)

swap out "80" for your port of interest. Can use port number or named ports e.g. "http"

Happy Days

AFAIR this is the wording ;)

run php code inline from the command line

Most people know that you can run a PHP script from the command line like so: $php ./my_script.php But sometimes I just want to run a quick bit of code, the PHP Command Line Interface allows me to do so with the -r option. Requires package php5-cli

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Remove ( color / special / escape / ANSI ) codes, from text, with sed

Remove ( color / special / escape / ANSI ) codes, from text, with sed Credit to the original folks who I've copied this command from. The diff here is: Theirs: [m|K] Theirs is supposed to remove \E[NUMBERS;NUMBERS[m OR K] This statement is incorrect in 2 ways. 1. The letters m and K are two of more than 20+ possible letters that can end these sequences. 2. Inside []'s , OR is already assumed, so they are also looking for sequences ending with | which is not correct. This : [a-zA-Z] This resolves the "OR" issue noted above, and takes care of all sequences, as they all end with a lower or upper cased letter. This ensures 100% of any escape code 'mess' is removed.

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