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download a list of urls
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cat urls.txt | xargs -n1 curl -O --max-time 10 --retry 3 --retry-delay 1

kev · 2012-05-14 06:38:06 4
Get external IP address (supports IPv4 and IPv6)

ip.telize.com (Listen on both IPv4 and IPv6) ip4.telize.com (Listen on IPv4 only) ip6.telize.com (Listen on IPv6 only) More information on : http://www.telize.com
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curl ip.telize.com

fcambus · 2014-02-04 12:25:52 7
Get your external IP address

If curl isn't available, use lynx.
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lynx --dump icanhazip.com

111110100 · 2010-06-16 11:52:50 3
See where a shortened url takes you before click

We can put this inside a function: fxray() { curl -s http://urlxray.com/display.php?url="$1" | grep -o '<title>.*</title>' | sed 's/<title>.*--> $.*$<\/title>/\1/g'; }; fxray http://tinyurl.com/demo-xray Show Sample Output
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```
http://urlxray.com/sex-so-hot-it-will-blow-your-mind.php

(Note: this result is totally SFW)
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curl -s http://urlxray.com/display.php?url=http://tinyurl.com/demo-xray | grep -o '<title>.*</title>' | sed 's/<title>.*--> $.*$<\/title>/\1/g'

karpoke · 2010-09-30 10:25:18 4
Get the browser user-agent

That's useful when you're doing some web scraping http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_scraping and you're trying to test your possibly fake user-agent. Show Sample Output
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```
curl/7.22.0 (x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu) libcurl/7.22.0 OpenSSL/1.0.0e zlib/1.2.5 libssh2/1.3.0
```
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curl sputnick-area.net/ua

sputnick · 2011-10-24 09:57:50 3
Get your external IP address

Another simple way to get external IP or use: wget -qO- http://ipecho.net/plain
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curl http://ipecho.net/plain

maxwelleite · 2013-02-20 14:14:19 5
download file1 file2 file3 file4 .... file 100

With counter format [001, 002, ..., 999] , nice with pictures or wallpapers collections.
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for file in $(seq -f '%03.f' 1 $TOTAL ); do echo "($file/$TOTAL)"; curl -f -O http://domain.com/Name_$file.ext; done

nordri · 2010-01-12 15:23:44 6
View the newest xkcd comic.

Add an alias to your .bashrc that allows you to issue the command xkcd to view (with gwenview) the newest xkcd comic... I know there are thousands of them out there but this one is at least replete with installer and also uses a more concise syntax... plus, gwenview shows you the downloading progress as it downloads the comic and gives you a more full featured viewing experience.
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echo alias xkcd="gwenview `w3m -dump http://xkcd.com/|grep png | awk '{print $5}'` 2> /dev/null" >> .bashrc

GinoMan2440 · 2010-01-30 20:38:16 5
Post to twitter via curl, Windows version

Aside from curl one will need iconv windows binary since windows lacks a native utf-8 cli interface. In my case I need a proxy in China and iconv to convert gbk status string into utf-8. GnuWin32 is a good choice with loads of coreutils natively ported to Windows "FOR /f" is the solution to pass iconv output to curl.
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FOR /f %%g in ('echo %1 ^| iconv -f gbk -t utf-8') DO curl -x proxy:port -u user:pass -d status=%%g -d source="cURL" http://twitter.com/statuses/update.xml

MeaCulpa · 2010-07-21 04:53:54 3
View the newest xkcd comic.

KISS To get a random xkcd comic: xdg-open http://dynamic.xkcd.com/random/comic/
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xdg-open http://xkcd.com/

unixmonkey8024 · 2010-08-25 19:14:11 3
download a specific file

download a specific file with -f to not display errors and -O to write output to a file named as the remote file. Show Sample Output
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```
% Total    % Received % Xferd  Average Speed   Time    Time     Time  Current
                                 Dload  Upload   Total   Spent    Left  Speed
 11 1621M   11  192M    0     0  1003k      0  0:27:34  0:03:16  0:24:18 1119k
```
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curl -f -O http://pcbsd.fastbull.org/7.0.2/i386/PCBSD7.0.2-x86-DVD.iso

battavia · 2009-04-26 07:23:31 13
Facebook Email Scraper
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fbemailscraper YourFBEmail Password

coast · 2010-05-26 20:52:29 5
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find broken symbolic links

== remove broken links == find -L . -type l -exec rm -rf {} \; == how this work == "symbolic link; this is never true if the -L option or the -follow option is in effect, unless the symbolic link is broken. If you want to search for symbolic links when -L is in effect, use -xtype." -- manpage of find.

check open ports without netstat or lsof

Remove security limitations from PDF documents using ghostscript (for Windows)

#4345 also works under windows

Router discovery

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" }

Create an animated gif from a Youtube video

requires "youtube-dl" -- sure you can do this with wget and some more obscurity but why waste your time when this great tool is available? the guts consist of mplayer converting a video to a gif -- study this command and read the man page for more information $ mplayer video.flv -ss 00:23 -endpos 6 -vo gif89a:fps=5:output=output.gif -vf scale=400:300 -nosound generates a 6 second gif starting at 23 seconds of play time at 5 fps and a scale of 400x300 start time (-ss)/end time (-endpos) formats: 00:00:00.000 end time should be relative to start time, not absolute. i.e. -endpos 5 == seconds after 0:42 = 0:47 end point play with fps and scale for lower gif sizes the subshell is a solution for the -b flag on youtube-dl which downloads the best quality video, sometimes, which can be various video formats $(ls ${url##*=}*| tail -n1)

Adding Prefix to File name

Good old bracket expansion :-) For large numbers of files, "rename" will spare you the for-loop, or the find/exec...

import gpg key from the web

imports a public key from the web. I know this by head.. but useful nevertheless

grep for minus (-) sign

Use flag "--" to stop switch parsing

detect partitions

`blkid` is an interface to libuuid - it can read Device Mapper, EVMS, LVM, MD, and regular block devices. -c /dev/null - Do not use cached output from /etc/blkid.tab or /etc/blkid/blkid.tab (RHEL) -i - Display I/O Limits (aka I/O topology) information (not available in RHEL) -p - Low-level superblock probing mode (not available in RHEL)

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