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Faster than the curl/wget-approaches.
Gets all kind of info, ifconfig.me rocks ... for just the ip addess you can use ifconfig.me or ifconfig.me/ip Show Sample Output
I found this command on a different site and thought you guy might enjoy it. Just change "YOURSEARCH" to what ever you want to search. Example, "Linux Commands"
connect to a remote server using ftp protocol over FUSE file system, then rsync the remote folder to a local one and then unmount the remote ftp server (FUSE FS) it can be divided to 3 different commands and you should have curlftpfs and rsync installed
This function uploads images to http://omploader.org and then prints out the links to the file.
Some coloring can also be added to the command with:
ompload() { curl -F file1=@"$1" http://omploader.org/upload|awk '/Info:|File:|Thumbnail:|BBCode:/{gsub(/<[^<]*?\/?>/,"");$1=$1;sub(/^/,"\033[0;34m");sub(/:/,"\033[0m:");print}';}
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should be very consistent cause it's google :-)
This creates a permanent stock ticker in the terminal. it has scrolling action and refreshes when each cycle is done to get the latest news.
bash.org is a collection of funny quotes from IRC.
WARNING: some of the quotes contain "adult" jokes... may be embarrassing if your boss sees them...
Thanks to Chen for the idea and initial version!
This script downloads a page with random quotes, filters the html to retrieve just one liners quotes and outputs the first one.
Just barely under the required 255 chars :)
Improvment:
You can replace the head -1 at the end by:
awk 'length($0)>0 {printf( $0 "\n%%\n" )}' > bash_quotes.txt
which will separate the quotes with a "%" and place it in the file.
and then:
strfile bash_quotes.txt
which will make the file ready for the fortune command
and then you can:
fortune bash_quotes.txt
which will give you a random quote from those in the downloaded file.
I download a file periodically and then use the fortune in .bashrc so I see a funny quote every time I open a terminal.
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Update twitter from commandline, without revealing your password and without having to type it interactively. You 'll need to put a line "machine twitter.com login TWITTERUSER password TWITTERPASS" in $HOME/.netrc and better chmod 600 that file.
This version of tweet() doesn't require you to put quotes around the body of your tweet... it also prompts you for password. It will still barf on a '!' character.
This bash function uses albumart.org to find the cover for an album. It returns an amazon.com url to the image.
Usage: albumart [artist] [album]
These arguments can be reversed and if the album name is distinct enough, it may be possible to omit the artist.
The command can be extended with wget to automatically download the matching image like this:
albumart(){ local x y="$@";x=$(awk '/View larger image/{gsub(/^.*largeImagePopup\(.|., .*$/,"");print;exit}' <(curl -s 'http://www.albumart.org/index.php?srchkey='${y// /+}'&itempage=1&newsearch=1&searchindex=Music'));[ -z "$x" ]&&echo "Not found."||wget "$x" -O "${y}.${x##*.}";}
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This version works on Mac (avoids grep -P, adding a sed step instead, and invokes /usr/bin/perl with full path in case you have another one installed). Still requires that you install perl module HTML::Entities ? here's how: http://www.perlmonks.org/?node_id=640489
This shell function grabs the weather forecast for the next 24 to 48 hours from weatherunderground.com. Replace <YOURZIPORLOCATION> with your zip code or your "city, state" or "city, country", then calling the function without any arguments returns the weather for that location. Calling the function with a zip code or place name as an argument returns the weather for that location instead of your default.
To add a bit of color formatting to the output, use the following instead:
weather(){ curl -s "http://api.wunderground.com/auto/wui/geo/ForecastXML/index.xml?query=${@:-<YOURZIPORLOCATION>}"|perl -ne '/<title>([^<]+)/&&printf "\x1B[0;34m%s\x1B[0m: ",$1;/<fcttext>([^<]+)/&&print $1,"\n"';}
Requires: perl, curl
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for me the above command didn't work for more than one argument but this one does
QR codes are those funny square 2d bar codes that everyone seems to be pointing their smart phones at.
Try the following...
qrurl http://xkcd.com
Then open qr.*.png in your favorite image viewer.
Point your the bar code reader on your smart phone at the code, and you'll shortly be reading xkcd on your phone.
URLs are not the only thing that can be encoded by QR codes... short texts (to around 2K) can be encoded this way, although this function doesn't do any URL encoding, so unless you want to do that by hand it won't be useful for that.
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