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Searches for web radio by submitted keyword and returns the station name and the link for listing . May be enhanced to read user's selection and submit it to mplayer. Show Sample Output

echo "Keyword?";read keyword;query="http://www.shoutcast.com/sbin/newxml.phtml?search="$keyword"";curl -s $query |awk -F '"' 'NR <= 4 {next}NR>15{exit}{sub(/SHOUTcast.com/,"http://yp.shoutcast.com/sbin/tunein-station.pls?id="$6)}{print i++" )"$2}'

benyounes · 2010-05-03 00:44:10 9

Upload folder to imageshack.us (forum)

Each file in the current folder is uploaded to imageshack.us If the folder contains other filetypes change: for files in * to: for files in *.jpg (to upload ONLY .jpg files) Additionally you can try (results may vary): for files in *.jpg *.png The output URL is encased with BB image tags for use in a forum. Show Sample Output
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```
[user@host ~]$ imageshack
######################################################################## 100.0%
    [IMG]http://img541.imageshack.us/img541/5382/wifidock01.png[/IMG]
######################################################################## 100.0%
    [IMG]http://img716.imageshack.us/img716/54/wifidock02.png[/IMG]
######################################################################## 100.0%
    [IMG]http://img825.imageshack.us/img825/6664/wifidock03.jpg[/IMG]
```
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imageshack() { for files in *; do curl -H Expect: -F fileupload="@$files" -F xml=yes -# "http://www.imageshack.us/index.php" | grep image_link | sed -e 's/<image_link>/[IMG]/g' -e 's/<\/image_link>/[\/IMG]/g'; done; }

operatinghazard · 2010-10-01 06:50:04 7
Google URL shortener

Shorter and made into a function. Show Sample Output
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```
http://goo.gl/jYVX
```
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googl () { curl -s -d "url=${1}" http://goo.gl/api/url | sed -n "s/.*:\"$[^\"]*$.*/\1\n/p" ;}

dabom · 2010-10-03 02:52:44 4
Create an easy to pronounce shortened URL from CLI

Just add this function to your .zshrc / .bashrc, and by typing "shout *URL*" you get a randomly chosen English word that ShoutKey.com uses to short your URL. You may now go to shoutkey.com/*output_word* and get redirected. The URL will be valid for 5 minutes. (I've never used sed before, so I'll be quite glad if someone could straighten up the sed commands and combine them (perhaps also removing the whitespace). If so, I'll update it right away ;) ) Show Sample Output
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```
$ shout http://www.commandlinefu.com                                                                                                                                                                   
  remind
```
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shout () { curl -s "http://shoutkey.com/new?url=$1" | sed -n 's/\<h1\>/\&/p' | sed 's/<[^>]*>//g;/</N;//b' ;}

elfreak · 2010-10-04 23:50:54 4
Create QR codes from a URL.

like 7300, but doesn't clutter your working directory with old qr.*.png files. This will get the QR barcode, and send it right into ImageMagick's 'display' tool. Usage is the same as 7300; just call this function followed by the URL: qrurl http://xkcd.com
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qrurl() { curl -sS "http://chart.apis.google.com/chart?chs=200x200&cht=qr&chld=H|0&chl=$1" -o - | display -filter point -resize 600x600 png:-; }

__ · 2010-12-16 04:42:05 4

Display HTTP-header using curl

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curl -I g.cn

cfy · 2011-03-27 14:27:23 7

Poor man's ntpdate
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date -s "$(curl -sD - www.example.com | grep '^Date:' | cut -d' ' -f3-6)Z"

casueps · 2019-12-20 10:10:14 241
geoip information

That makes a function you can put in your ~/.bashrc to run it when you need in any term with an IP as argument Show Sample Output
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```
GeoipLookUp 89.201.44.45
IP: 89.201.44.45 Location:
riga, RIGA, Latvia [LV] (Baltkom)
```
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GeoipLookUp(){ curl -A "Mozilla/5.0" -s "http://www.geody.com/geoip.php?ip=$1" | grep "^IP.*$1" | html2text; }

sputnick · 2009-11-06 00:32:27 5
Google URL shortener

use curl and sed to shorten an url via goo.gl
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curl -s 'http://ggl-shortener.appspot.com/?url='"$1" | sed -e 's/{"short_url":"//' -e 's/"}/\n/g'

mvrilo · 2010-03-26 22:31:06 23

Quick and dirty RSS

runs an rss feed through sed replacing the closing tags with newlines and the opening tags with white space making it readable. Show Sample Output

curl --silent "FEED ADDRESS" |sed -e 's/<\/[^>]*>/\n/g' -e 's/<[^>]*>//g

ljmhk · 2011-04-11 14:08:50 6

Check your unread Gmail from the command line

Just an alternative with more advanced formating for readability purpose. It now uses colors (too much for me but it's a kind of proof-of-concept), and adjust columns. Show Sample Output
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```
John Doe (doe@example.net):              I have found the meaning of life !!!
Suzanne Johnson (suzanne@example.com):   What do you think about 42 ?
Mom (mom@house.ws):                      You didn't accept my facebook invitation
```
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curl -u username --silent "https://mail.google.com/mail/feed/atom" | awk 'BEGIN{FS="\n";RS="(</entry>\n)?<entry>"}NR!=1{print "\033[1;31m"$9"\033[0;32m ("$10")\033[0m:\t\033[1;33m"$2"\033[0m"}' | sed -e 's,<[^>]*>,,g' | column -t -s $'\t'

frntn · 2011-10-15 23:15:52 4

interactive rss-based colorful commandline-fu reader perl oneliner (v0.1)

required packages: curl, xml2, html2text command is truncated, see 'sample output' Show Sample Output

open R,"curl -s http://feeds2.feedburner.com/Command-line-fu|xml2|"; while(<R>){ chomp; m(^/rss/channel/item/title=) and do{ s/^.*?=//; ($t,$d,$l)=($_,undef,undef) }; m(^/rss/channel/item/description=) and do{ s/^.*?=//; push @d,$_ }; m(^/rss/channel/item

bandie91 · 2012-02-24 23:40:02 6

Debug redirects between production reloads

Watches the headers of a curl, following any redirects and printing only the HTTP status and the location of the possible redirects. Show Sample Output
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```
Every 2,0s: curl -s ...

HTTP/1.1 301 Moved Permanently
Location: http://fooo.bar/
HTTP/1.1 302 Moved Temporarily
Location: http://fooo.bar/ho
HTTP/1.1 404 Not Found
```
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watch 'curl -s --location -I http://any.site.or.url | grep -e "$HTTP\|Location$"'

theist · 2012-04-23 17:05:29 5
Test load balancers

With the "--resolve" switch, you can avoid doing DNS lookups or edit the /etc/hosts file, by providing the IP address for a domain directly. Useful if you have many servers with different IP addresses behind a load balancer. Of course, you would loop it: for IP in 10.11.0.{1..10}; do curl --resolve subdomain.example.com:80:$IP subdomain.example.com -I -s; done
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curl --resolve subdomain.example.com:80:10.100.0.1 subdomain.example.com -I -s

atoponce · 2013-01-24 19:50:26 38
Get your outgoing IP address
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curl -s http://whatismyip.org/ | grep -oP '(\d{1,3}\.){3}\d+'

ciekawy · 2016-07-11 18:07:37 15
Backup all starred repositories from Github
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GITUSER=$(whoami); curl "https://api.github.com/users/${GITUSER}/starred?per_page=1000" | grep -o 'git@[^"]*' | xargs -L1 git clone

wuseman1 · 2022-06-25 20:39:12 525
Get a random quote from Breaking Bad

Hit an API with curl returning a random quote, then parse the result with jq. Show Sample Output
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```
"A guy that clean has to be dirty." -- Hank Schrader
```
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curl -s https://api.breakingbadquotes.xyz/v1/quotes | jq -r '.[] | "\"\(.quote)\" -- \(.author)"'

malathion · 2024-09-09 14:58:37 51
Creating shortened URLs from the command line

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```
$ curl -s http://tinyurl.com/create.php?url=http://www.commandlinefu.com/ | sed -n 's/.*$http:\/\/tinyurl.com\/[a-z0-9][a-z0-9]*$.*/\1/p'
http://tinyurl.com/d52z2c
```
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curl -s http://tinyurl.com/create.php?url=http://<website.url>/ | sed -n 's/.*$http:\/\/tinyurl.com\/[a-z0-9][a-z0-9]*$.*/\1/p' | uniq

amaymon · 2009-08-30 07:55:48 9
download all the presentations from UTOSC2010

miss a class at UTOSC2010? need a refresher? use this to curl down all the presentations from the UTOSC website. (http://2010.utosc.com) NOTE/WARNING this will dump them in the current directory and there are around 37 and some are big - tested on OSX10.6.1 Show Sample Output
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```
http://2009.utosc.com/static/slides/Crowdsourcing_UTOSC.ppt
  % Total    % Received % Xferd  Average Speed   Time    Time     Time  Current
                                 Dload  Upload   Total   Spent    Left  Speed
100 4819k  100 4819k    0     0   300k      0  0:00:16  0:00:16 --:--:--  250k
```
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b="http://2010.utosc.com"; for p in $( curl -s $b/presentation/schedule/ | grep /presentation/[0-9]*/ | cut -d"\"" -f2 ); do f=$(curl -s $b$p | grep "/static/slides/" | cut -d"\"" -f4); if [ -n "$f" ]; then echo $b$f; curl -O $b$f; fi done

danlangford · 2009-10-11 17:28:46 3
Check a server is up. If it isn't mail me.

Alternative to the ping check if your firewall blocks ping. Uses curl to get the landing page silently, or fail with an error code. You can probably do this with wget as well. Show Sample Output
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```
An email saying "brandx.jp.sme ping failed"
```
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curl -fs brandx.jp.sme 2&>1 > /dev/null || echo brandx.jp.sme ping failed | mail -ne -s'Server unavailable' joker@jp.co.uk

mccalni · 2009-10-23 14:29:06 7
geoip information

A function that takes a domain name as an argument Show Sample Output
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```
$ geo printifier.com
IP: 67.199.102.91 Location: Ashburn, VIRGINIA, United States   (UUNET Technologies, Inc.)
```
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geo(){ curl -s "http://www.geody.com/geoip.php?ip=$(dig +short $1)"| sed '/^IP:/!d;s/<[^>][^>]*>//g'; }

dennisw · 2009-11-12 17:14:09 26
Display Dilbert strip of the day

Requires display. Corrected version thanks to sputnick and eightmillion user.
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display http://dilbert.com$(curl -s dilbert.com|grep -Po '"\K/dyn/str_strip(/0+){4}/.*strip.[^\.]*\.gif')

wizel · 2009-12-05 19:35:27 14
Get your commandlinefu points (upvotes - downvotes)

This version prints current votes and commands for a user. Pass the user as an argument. While this technically "fits" as a one liner, it really is easier to look at as a shell script with extra whitespace. :) Show Sample Output
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```
  0  sed 's/.*/ /'
  0  date -s "`curl -sI www.example.com | sed -n 's/^Date: //p'`"
  0  jot -s '' -b '-' 50
  7  command | sed -n '1,/regex/p'
  4  curl -s search.twitter.com | awk -F'</?[^>]+>' '/\/intra\/trend\//{print $2}'
  5  dig +short -x {ip}
```
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curl -s http://www.commandlinefu.com/commands/by/$1/xml | awk -F'</?div[^>]*>' '/class=\"command\"/{gsub(/"/,"\"",$2); gsub(/</,"<",$2); gsub(/>/,">",$2); gsub(/&/,"\\&",$2); cmd=$2} /class=\"num-votes\"/{printf("%3i %s\n", $2, cmd)}'

putnamhill · 2010-02-16 17:24:45 6
Which Twitter user are you?

This will tell you which twitter user you are chronologically. For example, a number of 500 means you were the 500th user to create a twitter account. Show Sample Output
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```
14370790
```
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curl -s http://twitter.com/username | grep 'id="user_' | grep -o '[0-9]*'

spiffwalker · 2010-04-04 18:43:14 11
Grab just the title of a youtube video

There's another version on here that uses GET but some people don't have lwp-request, so here's an alternative. It's also a little shorter and should work with most youtube URLs since it truncates at the first &
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url="[Youtube URL]"; echo $(curl ${url%&*} 2>&1 | grep -iA2 '<title>' | grep '-') | sed 's/^- //'

rkulla · 2010-04-29 02:03:36 5
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generate a telephone keypad

Draw a telephone keyboard, using just a shell built-in command.

See system users

dd if=/dev/null of=/dev/sda

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see who's using DOM storage a/k/a Web Storage, super cookies

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Display error pages in report format

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Create a Multi-Part Archive Without Proprietary Junkware

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Hits per hour apache log

Show drive names next to their full serial number (and disk info)

As of this writing, this requires a fairly recent version of util-linux, but is much simpler than the previous alternatives. Basically, lsblk gives a nice, human readable interface to all the blkid stuff. (Of course, I wouldn't recommend this if you're going to be parsing the output.) This command takes all the fun out of the previous nifty pipelines, but I felt I ought to at least mention it as an alternative since it is the most practical.

Trick find -exec option to execute alias

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