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Pronounce an English word using Merriam-Webster.com

Looks up a word on merriam-webster.com, does a screen scrape for the FIRST audio pronunciation and plays it. USAGE: Put this one-liner into a shell script (e.g., ~/bin/pronounce) and run it from the command line giving it the word to say: pronounce lek If the word isn't found in merriam-webster, no audio is played and the script returns an error value. However, M-W is a fairly complete dictionary (better than howjsay.com which won't let you hear how to pronounce naughty words). ASSUMPTIONS: GNU's sed (which supports -r for extended regular expressions) and Linux's aplay. Aplay can be replaced by any program that can play .WAV files from stdin. KNOWN BUGS: only the FIRST pronunciation is played, which is problematic if you wanted a particular form (plural, adjectival, etc) of the word. For example, if you run this: pronounce onomatopoetic you'll hear a voice saying "onomatopoeia". Playing the correct form of the word is possible, but doing so might make the screen scraper even more fragile than it already is. (The slightest change to the format of m-w.com could break it). Show Sample Output
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```
$ pronounce bodhisattva
[ You hear a voice ]
$ pronounce asdfasdfasdf || echo "Sorry, I can't say that."
Sorry, I can't say that.
```
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cmd=$(wget -qO- "http://www.m-w.com/dictionary/$(echo "$@"|tr '[A-Z]' '[a-z]')" | sed -rn "s#return au$'([^']+?)', '([^'])[^']*'$;.*#\nwget -qO- http://cougar.eb.com/soundc11/\2/\1 | aplay -q#; s/[^\n]*\n//p"); [ "$cmd" ] && eval "$cmd" || exit 1

hackerb9 · 2010-03-12 13:56:41 3
Currency Conversion

eg: currency_convert 1 usd inr Show Sample Output
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```
1 USD = 45.4950 INR
```
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currency_convert() { wget -qO- "http://www.google.com/finance/converter?a=$1&from=$2&to=$3&hl=es" | sed '/res/!d;s/<[^>]*>//g'; }

vinodvm · 2010-03-22 13:41:39 282
Email someone if a web page has been updated.

A cronjob command line to email someone when a webpages homepage is updated.
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cd /some/empty/folder/website_diffs/sitename && wget -N http://domain.com/ 2>&1 |grep -q "o newer" || printf "Sites web page appears to have updated.\n\nSuggest you check it out.\n\n"|mail -s "Sites page updated." david@email.com

DaveQB · 2010-05-09 07:28:42 3
What is my public IP-address?

alternative to curl ifconfig.me for those that don't have curl Show Sample Output
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```
123.123.123.123
```
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wget -qO- ifconfig.me/ip

glaudiston · 2010-08-05 12:04:43 3
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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wget -q -O- --header\="Accept-Encoding: gzip" <url> | gunzip > out.html

ashish_0x90 · 2010-11-27 22:14:42 6
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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mplayer $(wget -q -O - "http://europarse.real.com/hurl/gratishurl.ram?pid=eu_aljazeera&file=al_jazeera_en_lo.rm" | sed -e 's#lo.rm#hi.rm#')

torrid · 2011-01-30 14:36:37 3
Google voice recognition "API"

The FLAC audio must be encoded at 16000Hz sampling rate (SoX is your friend). Outputs a short JSON string, the actual speech is in the hypotheses->utterance, the accuracy is stored in hypotheses->confidence (ranging from 0 to 1). Google also accepts audio in some special speex format (audio/x-speex-with-header-byte), which is much smaller in comparison with losless FLAC, but I haven't been able to encode such a sample. Show Sample Output
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```
{"status":0,"id":"7c5893bbf1eb378686bdf3aa369f1a44-1","hypotheses":[{"utterance":"hello world","confidence":0.6340324}]}
```
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wget -q -U "Mozilla/5.0" --post-file speech.flac --header="Content-Type: audio/x-flac; rate=16000" -O - "http://www.google.com/speech-api/v1/recognize?lang=en-us&client=chromium"

sairon · 2011-03-08 13:39:01 4
Get your outgoing IP address
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wget http://icanhazip.com -qO-

sreimann · 2012-02-17 15:38:51 3
Download all manuals RedHat 7 (CentOS/Fedora) with one command in Linux
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wget -q -O- https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-US/Red_Hat_Enterprise_Linux/ | grep Linux/7/pdf | cut -d \" -f 2 | awk '{print "https://access.redhat.com"$1}' | xargs wget

carlosesteves · 2015-05-06 15:58:43 11
What is my ip?
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wget -q -O - ifconfig.co

danam · 2015-09-18 13:04:32 15
Get the current gold price

Returns the current price of a troy ounce of gold, in USD. Requires the "jq" JSON parser. Show Sample Output
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```
Gold price is 1088.05 USD
```
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echo "Gold price is" $(wget https://rate-exchange-1.appspot.com/currency\?from=XAU\&to=USD -q -O - | jq ".rate") "USD"

lordtoran · 2015-11-11 14:20:06 18
Recover username and password for Technicolor TC7200 admin page (vulnerability)

The router Technicolor TC7200 has an exploit where the file http://192.168.0.1/goform/system/GatewaySettings.bin is open for unauthenticated access. Even though it is binary, the 2 last strings are the username and password for the pages for router management. It can be read using the 'strings' command, 'hexdump -C' or a hexadecimal editor. (default user/password = admin/admin) Reveals more configuration, including SSID name and Key for the wifi network: wget -q -O - http://192.168.0.1/goform/system/GatewaySettings.bin Hexadecimal dump of the file: wget -q -O - http://192.168.0.1/goform/system/GatewaySettings.bin | hexdump -C Show Sample Output
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```
admin
@dm1np@ssw0rd1234$#
```
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wget -q -O - http://192.168.0.1/goform/system/GatewaySettings.bin | strings | tail -n 2

paulera · 2016-05-03 23:03:55 13
Download entire website
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wget -r -p -U Mozilla --wait=10 --limit-rate=35K https://www.thegeekstuff.com

shantanuo · 2022-01-24 02:56:53 407
"I Feel Lucky" for Google Images

prompts for a search term and then pulls down the first result from google images
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echo -n "search> ";read QUERY && wget -O - `wget -O - -U "Mozilla/5.0" "http://images.google.com/images?q=${QUERY}" 2>/dev/null |sed -e 's/","http/\n","http/g' |awk -F \" '{print $3}' |grep -i http: |head -1` > "$QUERY"

wwest4 · 2009-02-05 19:50:53 30
Get My Public IP Address
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wget -qO - http://myip.dk/ | egrep -m1 -o '[0-9]{1,3}\.[0-9]{1,3}\.[0-9]{1,3}\.[0-9]{1,3}'

6peng · 2009-02-06 03:25:08 20
Print trending topics on Twitter
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wget http://search.twitter.com/trends.json -O - --quiet | ruby -rubygems -e 'require "json";require "yaml"; puts YAML.dump(JSON.parse($stdin.gets))'

unixmonkey842 · 2009-02-15 21:24:06 11
Stream the latest offering from your fave netcasts/podcasts

This is a quick line to stream in the latest offerings of your favorite netcasts/podcasts. You will need to have a file named netcast.txt in the directory you run this from. This file should have one and only one of your netcast's/podcst's url per line. When run the line grabs the offering on the top of the netcast/podcast stack and end it over , quietly, to vlc. Since I move around computers during the day I wanted an easy way to listen to my daily dose of news and such without having to worry about downloading to whatever machine I am on. This is just a quick grab and stream of whats current. Future plans... have the list of netcasts be read from the web. possibly an rss or such. I use greader so there might be a way to use it as the source so as not to have to muck with multiple lists Show Sample Output
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```
The sound of the latest offering being played.
```
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vlc --one-instance --playlist-enqueue -q $(while read netcast; do wget -q $netcast -O - |grep enclosure | tr '\r' '\n' | tr \' \" | sed -n 's/.*url="$[^"]*$".*/\1/p'|head -n1; done <netcast.txt)

tomwsmf · 2009-03-03 04:26:01 8
add a gpg key to aptitute package manager in a ubuntu system

when we add a new package to a aptitude (the debian package manager) we need to add the gpg, otherwise it will show warning / error for missing key Show Sample Output
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```
OK
```
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wget -q http://xyz.gpg -O- | sudo apt-key add -

gnuyoga · 2009-03-25 12:18:29 8
Go get those photos from a Picasa album
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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 -

aciancone · 2009-09-27 14:36:27 7
Google Translate

translate <phrase> <source-language> <output-language> works from command line
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cmd=$( wget -qO- "http://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/services/language/translate?v=1.0&q=$1&langpair=$2|${3:-en}" | sed 's/.*"translatedText":"$[^"]*$".*}/\1\n/'; ); echo "$cmd"

dtolj · 2010-03-13 01:09:00 50
Compare prices in euro of the HTC Desire on all the european websites of Expansys.

You think Expansys in all these countries will sell the HTC Desire for the same price? Well, you'll be surprised. Most of them will be sold at 499.99 EUR but the cheapest can be found in Germany and the most expensive, in Belgium.
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for i in be bg cz de es fi fr hu it lv lu at pl pt ro sk si ; do echo -n "$i " ; wget -q -O - http://www.expansys.$i/d.aspx?i=196165 | grep price | sed "s/.*<p id='price'><strong>€ $[0-9]*[,.][0-9]*$.*/\1/g"; done

betsubetsu · 2010-03-18 15:13:20 10
Working random fact generator

extension to tali713's random fact generator. It takes the output & sends it to notify-osd. Display time is proportional to the lengh of the fact.
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wget randomfunfacts.com -O - 2>/dev/null | grep \<strong\> | sed "s;^.*<i>$.*$</i>.*$;\1;" | while read FUNFACT; do notify-send -t $((1000+300*`echo -n $FUNFACT | wc -w`)) -i gtk-dialog-info "RandomFunFact" "$FUNFACT"; done

mtron · 2010-04-02 09:43:32 4
Echo the latest commands from commandlinefu on the console

A Quick variation to the latest commands list with the new-lines skipped. This is faster to read.
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wget -O - http://www.commandlinefu.com/commands/browse/rss 2>/dev/null | awk '/\s*<title/ {z=match($0, /CDATA\[([^\]]*)\]/, b);print b[1]} /\s*<description/ {c=match($0, /code>(.*)<\/code>/, d);print d[1]} ' | grep -v "^$"

nikunj · 2010-06-29 16:22:03 36
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 -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

unixmonkey14750 · 2010-12-03 17:27:08 30
Download all images from a 4chan thread

Useful for ripping wallpaper from 4chan.org/wg
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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 }

gml · 2010-12-11 09:01:32 8
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