Will return temperature in Fahrenheit of a location (New York City in example). Uses a Google API. Show Sample Output
Get Google Reader unread count from the command line.
You'll have to define your auth token with $auth
Or use:
curl -s -H "Authorization: GoogleLogin auth=$(curl -sd "Email=$email&Passwd=$password&service=reader" https://www.google.com/accounts/ClientLogin | grep Auth | sed 's/Auth=\(.*\)/\1/')" "http://www.google.com/reader/api/0/unread-count?output=json" | tr '{' '\n' | sed 's/.*"count":\([0-9]*\),".*/\1/' | grep -E ^[0-9]+$ | tr '\n' '+' | sed 's/\(.*\)+/\1\n/' | bc
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This will send the web page at $u to recipient@example.com . To send the web page to oneself, recipient@example.com can be replaced by $(whoami) or $USER. The "charset" is UTF-8 here, but any alternative charset of your choice would work. `wget -O - -o /dev/null $u` may be considered instead of `curl $u` . On some systems the complete path to sendmail may be necessary, for instance /sys/pkg/libexec/sendmail/sendmail for some NetBSD.
Will create a graph of the results for "x bottles of beer on the wall". Requires Gnuplot. Inspired by an xkcd comic: http://xkcd.com/715/ For sample output see: http://tr.im/xbottlesofbeer Show Sample Output
Request all information about my IP address in xml format
Translate the X selection from German to English. The tw program is available from Savannah: http://mirror.its.uidaho.edu/pub/savannah/twandgtw/ I'm posting this because the base Debian system also does not include curl.
Usage:
get-ipsw device-name generation-string firmware-version
For example:
get-ipsw iPod 2,1 4.0
Different generation strings:
iPhone 3G: iPhone 1,2
iPhone 3GS: iPhone 2,1
iPod touch 2G: iPod 2,1
iPod touch 3G: iPod 3,1
This can be used with idevicerestore (I haven't tried it though).
http://github.com/posixninja/idevicerestore
Based on:
http://www.tuaw.com/2010/06/21/ios-4-0-firmware-release-expected-momentarily-quick-terminal-ti/
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Shorter version with curl and awk
The command was too long for the command box, so here it is:
echo $(( `wget -qO - http://i18n.counter.li.org/ | grep 'users registered' | sed 's/.*\<font size=7\>//g' | tr '\>' ' ' | sed 's/<br.*//g' | tr ' ' '\0'` + `curl --silent http://www.dudalibre.com/gnulinuxcounter?lang=en | grep users | head -2 | tail -1 | sed 's/.*<strong>//g' | sed 's/<\/strong>.*//g'` ))
This took me about an hour to do. It uses wget and curl because, dudalibre.com blocks wget, and wget worked nicely for me.
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replace username with the username you wish to check. Show Sample Output
urls.txt should have a fully qualified url on each line
prefix with
rm log.txt;
to clear the log
change curl command to
curl --head $file | head -1 >> log.txt
to just get the http status
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Uses the Wunderground web API to get weather data. Change the STA variable to a station near you. Show Sample Output
Grab 4 bytes from www.random.org over ssl and format them as an integer
If you know the URL of a file on a SharePoint server, it's just a matter of logging in with your AD credentials to get the file with cURL
DO NOT RUN this command! THIS WILL CHECK IN ALL CHANGES IN THE CURRENT DIRECTORY TO SUBVERSION WITH A TERRIBLE COMMIT MESSAGE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! DON'T DO IT! YOU'VE BEEN WARNED! Show Sample Output
Requires html2text. Print bad, but often funny commit messages from whatthecommit.com Show Sample Output
Use curl to invoke remote web service, where the file 'XML' is the soap payload
This uses wget instead of curl
Additionally it may give your geolocation if it's known by hostip.info Show Sample Output
XML version. Additionally it may give your geolocation if it's known by hostip.info Show Sample Output
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