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In this example we search for 'vim' but vim doesn't have a project on github right now. That's ok, this command still searches for every project that has 'vim' in their description (forks, plugins, etc). To get XML or JSON output just replace 'yaml' in the url with 'xml' or 'json'. Show Sample Output

curl http://github.com/api/v1/yaml/search/vim

rkulla · 2010-05-30 00:29:03 4

translate what is in the clipboard in english and write it to the terminal
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curl -s "http://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/services/language/translate?langpair=|en&v=1.0&q=`xsel`" |cut -d \" -f 6

eneko · 2010-06-11 21:38:26 4
Find the annual salary of any White House staffer.

Query the Socrata Open Data API being used by the White House to find any employee's salary using curl, grep and awk. Change the value of the search parameter (example uses Axelrod) to the name of any White House staffer to see their annual salary. Show Sample Output
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```
"172200.00"
```
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curl -s "http://www.socrata.com/api/views/vedg-c5sb/rows.json?search=Axelrod" | grep "data\" :" | awk '{ print $17 }'

mheadd · 2010-07-01 23:54:54 8
find co-ordinates of a location

Just add this to your .bashrc file. Use quotes when query has multiple word length. Show Sample Output
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```
shadyabhi@ArchLinux ~ $ findlocation DA-IICT
Full Address: Dhirubhai Ambani Institute of Information and Communication Technology, Gandhinagar, Gujarat, India,
coordinates: [ 72.6276828, 23.1891000, 0 ]
shadyabhi@ArchLinux ~ $ findlocation "DA-IICT Gandhinagar"
Full Address: Dhirubhai Ambani Institute of Information and Communication Technology, Gandhinagar, Gujarat, India,
coordinates: [ 72.6276828, 23.1891000, 0 ]
shadyabhi@ArchLinux ~ $ 
```
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findlocation() { place=`echo $1 | sed 's/ /%20/g'` ; curl -s "http://maps.google.com/maps/geo?output=json&oe=utf-8&q=$place" | grep -e "address" -e "coordinates" | sed -e 's/^ *//' -e 's/"//g' -e 's/address/Full Address/';}

shadyabhi · 2010-10-18 21:11:42 16
Retrieve the size of a file on a server

Downloads the entire file, but http servers don't always provide the optional 'Content-Length:' header, and ftp/gopher/dict/etc servers don't provide a filesize header at all.
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curl -s "$URL" |wc -c

Mozai · 2011-07-18 15:47:57 4
google tts
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say() { curl -sA Mozilla -d q=`python3 -c 'from urllib.parse import quote_plus; from sys import stdin; print(quote_plus(stdin.read()[:100]))' <<<"$@"` 'http://translate.google.com/translate_tts' | mpg123 -q -; }

kev · 2011-11-26 09:18:16 21
Google URL shortener

(1) required: python-googl ( install by: pip install python-googl ) (2) get from google API console https://code.google.com/apis/console/ Show Sample Output
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```
$ python -c 'import googl; print googl.Googl("<your_google_api_key").shorten("'http://commandlinefu.com/'")[u"id"]'
http://goo.gl/zYAip
```
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python -c 'import googl; print googl.Googl("<your_google_api_key>").shorten("'$someurl'")[u"id"]'

shr386 · 2012-05-31 17:14:17 4
Colorized JSON pretty printing

Uses pygmentize and python to create indented and colorized JSON output Show Sample Output
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```
curl -s http://www.reddit.com/.json | pp
```
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alias pp='python -mjson.tool | pygmentize -l javascript'

wires · 2012-10-16 13:55:38 22
Expand shortened URLs

This relies on a public API from http://longurl.org. So, this has the weakness that if the service disappears, the function will break. However, it has the advantage that the shortened URL service will not be tracking your IP address and other metrics, but instead will track longurl.org. Thus, you can remain anonymous from the shortened URL services (although not anonymous from longurl.org). It does no sanity checking that you have provided an argument. If you do not provide one, "message" is displayed to STDOUT. Show Sample Output
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```
$ expandurl http://ae7.st/s/4O
http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2013/01/all-backscatter-pornoscanners-to-be-removed-from-us-airports/
```
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expandurl() { curl -s "http://api.longurl.org/v2/expand?url=${1}&format=php" | awk -F '"' '{print $4}' }

atoponce · 2013-01-19 10:40:46 21
Easy file sharing from the command line using transfer.sh

Requires: curl xsel access to the internet(http://transfer.sh) This is an alias utilizing the transfer.sh service to make sharing files easier from the command line. I have modified the alias provided by transfer.sh to use xsel to copy the resulting URL to the clipboard. The full modified alias is as follows since commandlinefu only allows 255 characters: transfer() { if [ $# -eq 0 ]; then echo "No arguments specified. Usage:\necho transfer /tmp/test.md\ncat /tmp/test.md | transfer test.md"; return 1; fi if tty -s; then basefile=$(basename "$1" | sed -e 's/[^a-zA-Z0-9._-]/-/g'); curl --progress-bar --upload-file "$1" "https://transfer.sh/$basefile" |xsel --clipboard; else curl --progress-bar --upload-file "-" "https://transfer.sh/$1" |xsel --clipboard ; fi; xsel --clipboard; } Show Sample Output
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```
#:~$ transfer /usr/share/common-licenses/GPL
######################################################################## 100.0%
https://transfer.sh/UoMJs/gpl
```
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transfer() { basefile=$(basename "$1" | sed -e 's/[^a-zA-Z0-9._-]/-/g');curl --progress-bar --upload-file "$1" "https://transfer.sh/$basefile"|xsel --clipboard;xsel --clipboard ; }

leftyfb · 2016-03-20 19:38:48 13
Get your outgoing IP address
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curl -s httpbin.org/ip | jq -r .origin

tebeka · 2016-08-11 04:20:48 15
Ultra fast public IP address lookup using Cloudflare's 1.1.1.1
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curl -fSs https://1.1.1.1/cdn-cgi/trace | awk -F= '/ip/ { print $2 }'

skhaz · 2019-09-05 19:31:25 361
Print all git repos from a user (only curl and grep)
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curl -s https://api.github.com/users/<username>/repos?per_page=1000 | grep -oP '(?<="git_url": ").*(?="\,)'

acavagni · 2019-12-11 20:55:13 310
Clone starred github repos in parallel with unlimited speed, this example will clone 25 repositories in parallel at same time.
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GITUSER=$(whoami); curl "https://api.github.com/users/${GITUSER}/starred?per_page=1000" | grep -o 'git@[^"]*' | parallel -j 25 'git clone {}'

wuseman1 · 2022-06-27 18:58:46 479
Search commandlinefu from the command line

There's probably a more efficient way to do this rather than the relatively long perl program, but perl is my hammer, so text processing looks like a nail. This is of course a lot to type all at once. You can make it better by putting this somewhere: clf () { (curl -d "q=$@" http://www.commandlinefu.com/search/autocomplete 2>/dev/null) | egrep 'autocomplete|votes|destination' | perl -pi -e 's/<a style="display:none" class="destination" href="//g;s/<[^>]*>//g;s/">$/\n\n/g;s/^ +|\([0-9]+ votes,//g;s/^\//http:\/\/commandlinefu.com\//g'; } Then, to look up any command, you can do this: clf diff This is similar to http://www.colivre.coop.br/Aurium/CLFUSearch except that it's just one line, so more in the spirit of CLF, in my opinion. Show Sample Output
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```
grep --color=auto -iRnH "$search_word" $directory

Grep for word in directory (recursive)                 
http://commandlinefu.com/commands/view/1144/grep-for-word-in-directory-recursive


grep -i --color=auto

Grep colorized                 
http://commandlinefu.com/commands/view/2004/grep-colorized
```
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(curl -d q=grep http://www.commandlinefu.com/search/autocomplete) | egrep 'autocomplete|votes|destination' | perl -pi -e 's/a style="display:none" class="destination" href="//g;s/<[^>]*>//g;s/">$/\n\n/g;s/^ +//g;s/^\//http:\/\/commandlinefu.com\//g'

isaacs · 2009-07-08 22:10:49 13
View the newest xkcd comic.
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wget `lynx --dump http://xkcd.com/|grep png`

metalx1000 · 2009-12-03 23:10:22 4
Show local/public IP adresses with or without interface argument using a shell function for Linux and MacOsX

Like the tiltle said, you can use an argument too ( the interface ) MyIps eth0 will show only the IP of this interface and the public IP ( tested with Linux ) You can add that function in ~/.bashrc, then . ~/.bashrc Now you are ready to call this function in all your terms... Show Sample Output
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```
local:
10.0.0.1
10.0.0.221
192.168.0.1

public:
212.34.55.218
```
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MyIps(){ echo -e "local:\n$(ifconfig $1 | grep -oP 'inet (add?r:)?\K(\d{1,3}\.){3}\d{1,3}')\n\npublic:\n$(curl -s sputnick-area.net/ip)"; }

sputnick · 2009-12-06 22:52:31 7
random xkcd comic as xml
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curl -sL 'dynamic.xkcd.com/comic/random/' | awk -F\" '/^<img/{printf("<?xml version=\"1.0\"?>\n<xkcd>\n<item>\n <title>%s</title>\n <comment>%s</comment>\n <image>%s</image>\n</item>\n</xkcd>\n", $6, $4, $2)}'

putnamhill · 2009-12-09 15:02:32 5
Use curl to save an MP3 stream

I use this with cron to timeshift radio programs from a station's live stream. You will get an error message at the end like "curl: (28) Operation timed out after 10000 milliseconds with 185574 bytes received"; to suppress that but not other error messages, you can append "2>&1 | grep -v "(28)"" to the end of the command.
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curl -sS -o $outfile -m $showlengthinseconds $streamurl

sud0er · 2009-12-22 22:37:42 6
Poor man's ntpdate

If you don't have netcat, you can use curl.
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date -s "`curl -sI www.example.com | sed -n 's/^Date: //p'`"

putnamhill · 2010-01-08 21:05:41 5
ShadyURL via CLI
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SITE="www.google.com"; curl --silent "http://www.shadyurl.com/create.php?myUrl=$SITE&shorten=on" | awk -F\' '/is now/{print $6}'

allrightname · 2010-02-19 14:21:02 7
Get your external IP address

Request all information about my IP address in json format
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curl ifconfig.me/all/json

truemilk · 2010-04-21 20:47:17 6
Create an easy to pronounce shortened URL from CLI

Shorter regex. Show Sample Output
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```
http://shoutkey.com/multiple
```
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shout() { curl -s "http://shoutkey.com/new?url=${1}" | sed -n "/<h1>/s/.*href=\"$[^\"]*$\".*/\1/p" ;}

dabom · 2010-10-05 19:15:50 5
find co-ordinates of a location

Alternative to http://commandlinefu.com/commands/view/6831/find-co-ordinates-of-a-location with $* instead of $1 so no need to quote multi-word locations Show Sample Output
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```
$ findlocation Google Headquarters
Full Address: Google European Headquarters, Gordon House, Barrow St, Dublin, Co. Dublin City, Ireland,
coordinates: [ -6.2363000, 53.3407000, 0 ]
```
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findlocation() { place=`echo $* | sed 's/ /%20/g'` ; curl -s "http://maps.google.com/maps/geo?output=json&oe=utf-8&q=$place" | grep -e "address" -e "coordinates" | sed -e 's/^ *//' -e 's/"//g' -e 's/address/Full Address/';}

nimmylebby · 2010-10-18 21:38:20 6
Key binding to search commandlinefu.com

This is a simple bash function and a key binding that uses commandlinefu's simple and easy search API. It prompts for a search term, then it uses curl to search commandline fu, and highlights the search results with less.
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function ds { echo -n "search : "; read ST; EST=`php -r "echo rawurlencode('$ST');"`; B64=`echo -n $ST| openssl enc -base64`; curl -s "http://www.commandlinefu.com/commands/matching/$EST/$B64/plaintext" | less -p "$ST"; } ; bind '"\C-k"':"\"ds\C-m\""

cparker · 2011-02-20 23:46:16 33
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A fun thing to do with ram is actually open it up and take a peek. This command will show you all the string (plain text) values in ram

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Find usb device in realtime

Using this command you can track a moment when usb device was attached.

Mac OS X: remove extra languages to save over 3 GB of space.

This will get the job done in the most efficient way - spawning only one `rm` process. "On-the-fly" find data is displayed through `tee` and you should have plenty of time to ctrl-c if needed before it's too late. You may need to re-run this after major Software Updates. To leave more languages in, add more ``-and \! -iname "lang*"'' statements: $ sudo find / -iname "*.lproj" -and \! -iname "en*" -and \! -iname "spanish*" -print0 | tee /dev/stderr | sudo xargs -0 rm -rfv **Edit: note the 2nd sudo near the end of the pipeline - this is necessary.

Remove empty directories

You can also use, $ find . -depth -type d -exec rmdir {} \; 2>/dev/null

Alias TAIL for automatic smart output

Run the alias command, then issue $ps aux | tail and resize your terminal window (putty/console/hyperterm/xterm/etc) then issue the same command and you'll understand. $ ${LINES:-`tput lines 2>/dev/null||echo -n 12`} Insructs the shell that if LINES is not set or null to use the output from `tput lines` ( ncurses based terminal access ) to get the number of lines in your terminal. But furthermore, in case that doesn't work either, it will default to using the default of 80. The default for TAIL is to output the last 10 lines, this alias changes the default to output the last x lines instead, where x is the number of lines currently displayed on your terminal - 7. The -7 is there so that the top line displayed is the command you ran that used TAIL, ie the prompt. Depending on whether your PS1 and/or PROMPT_COMMAND output more than 1 line (mine is 3) you will want to increase from -2. So with my prompt being the following, I need -7, or - 5 if I only want to display the commandline at the top. ( http://www.askapache.com/linux/bash-power-prompt.html ) 275MB/748MB [7995:7993 - 0:186] 06:26:49 Thu Apr 08 [askapache@n1-backbone5:/dev/pts/0 +1] ~ $ In most shells the LINES variable is created automatically at login and updated when the terminal is resized (28 linux, 23/20 others for SIGWINCH) to contain the number of vertical lines that can fit in your terminal window. Because the alias doesn't hard-code the current LINES but relys on the $LINES variable, this is a dynamic alias that will always work on a tty device.

revert a file with svn

Convert filenames from ISO-8859-1 to UTF-8

Nothing advanced, it just finds filenames that are stored with ISO-8859-1 characters and and converts those into UTF-8. Recommended to use without the --notest flag first so you can see what will be changed.

Start another X session in a window

You might have Xnest (older) rather than Xephyr. You can experiment with other desktops eg: startx /usr/bin/start-kde -- /usr/bin/Xephyr :2 You can start X on a remote machine (although I'd recommend vnc for anything slower than a LAN): startx /usr/bin/ssh -X gnome-session -- /usr/bin/Xephyr :2 Or just start another X session locally talking to the remote backend:

diff directories, quick cut and paste to view the changes

We use this to quickly highlight differences and provide a quick way to cut and paste the command to view the files using the marvellous vimdiff

Diff 2 file struct - Useful for branch diff and jars diff(uncompressed)

This is usefull to diff 2 paths in branches of software, or in different versions of a same zip file. So you can get the real file diff.

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