Commands using wget (286)

  • A function for retrieving and displaying a list of synonyms for a German word or phrase. Show Sample Output


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    desyno(){ wget -q -O- https://www.openthesaurus.de/synonyme/search\?q\="$*"\&format\=text/xml | sed 's/>/>\n/g' | grep "<term term=" | cut -d \' -f 2 | paste -s -d , | sed 's/,/, /g' | fold -s -w $(tput cols); }
    lordtoran · 2019-02-09 05:06:42 32
  • Get newest kernel version by parsing the most bleeding-edge Makefile possible. Useful for doing things like writing live ebuilds and/or self-updating PKGBUILDs for testing purposes. Breakdown: * wget -qO - https://raw.githubusercontent.com/torvalds/linux/master/Makefile — retrieve Makefile and pipe to stdout * head -n5 — only the first 5 lines are relevant, that's where all the version variables are grep -E '\ \=\ [0-9]{1,}' — version variables always have an equals sign followed by a number * cut -d' ' -f3 — extract the individual numbers from the version variables * tr '\n' '.' — replace newlines with periods * sed -e "s/\.$// — remove trailing period Show Sample Output


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    wget -qO - https://raw.githubusercontent.com/torvalds/linux/master/Makefile | head -n5 | grep -E '\ \=\ [0-9]{1,}' | cut -d' ' -f3 | tr '\n' '.' | sed -e "s/\.$//"
    realkstrawn93 · 2021-04-27 17:12:05 415
  • just a alternative using a saved html file of all of my bookmarks. works well although it takes awhile.


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    wget -r --wait=5 --quota=5000m --tries=3 --directory-prefix=/home/erin/Documents/erins_webpages --limit-rate=20k --level=1 -k -p -erobots=off -np -N --exclude-domains=del.icio.us,doubleclick.net -F -i ./delicious-20090629.htm
    bbelt16ag · 2009-07-02 01:46:21 7

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    wget -O - http://checkip.dyndns.org|sed 's/[^0-9.]//g'
    thundernode · 2009-08-06 12:47:32 5
  • From Hong Kong Observatory wap site ;) Show Sample Output


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    wget -q -O - 'http://wap.weather.gov.hk/' | sed -r 's/<[^>]+>//g;/^UV/q' | grep -v '^$'
    twfcc · 2009-09-25 02:21:05 6
  • "get Hong Kong weather infomation from HK Observatory From Hong Kong Observatory wap site ;)" other one showed alot of blank lines for me Show Sample Output


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    wget -q -O - 'http://wap.weather.gov.hk/' | sed -r 's/<[^>]+>//g;/^UV/q' | tail -n4
    dakunesu · 2009-09-25 02:36:46 3
  • Combines a few repetitive tasks when compiling source code. Especially useful when a hypen in a file-name breaks tab completion. 1.) wget source.tar.gz 2.) tar xzvf source.tar.gz 3.) cd source 4.) ls From there you can run ./configure, make and etc. Show Sample Output


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    wtzc () { wget "$@"; foo=`echo "$@" | sed 's:.*/::'`; tar xzvf $foo; blah=`echo $foo | sed 's:,*/::'`; bar=`echo $blah | sed -e 's/\(.*\)\..*/\1/' -e 's/\(.*\)\..*/\1/'`; cd $bar; ls; }
    oshazard · 2010-01-17 11:25:47 3
  • Bash scrip to test if a server is up, you can use this before wget'ing a file to make sure a blank one isn't downloaded.


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    if [ "$(ping -q -c1 google.com)" ];then wget -mnd -q http://www.google.com/intl/en_ALL/images/logo.gif ;fi
    alf · 2010-03-23 04:15:03 10

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    wget -qO - "http://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/services/language/translate?langpair=|zh-cn&v=1.0&q=`xsel`" |cut -d \" -f 6
    unixmonkey10186 · 2010-06-05 18:49:59 4

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    wget --load-cookies <cookie-file> -c -i <list-of-urls>
    alriode · 2010-07-12 02:35:21 3
  • Wgets "whatismyip" from checkip.dyndns.org and filters out the actual IP-adress. Usefull when you quickly need to find the outward facting IP-address of your current location. Show Sample Output


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    wget --quiet -O - checkip.dyndns.org | sed -e 's/[^:]*: //' -e 's/<.*$//'
    berkes · 2010-08-01 13:36:08 3

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    wget -qO - http://i18n.counter.li.org/ | grep 'users registered' | sed 's/.*\<font size=7\>//g' | tr '\>' ' ' | sed 's/<br.*//g' | tr ' ' '\0'
    hunterm · 2010-10-07 03:19:17 4
  • some other options: &delay=1000 &mode=links much more with piggybank as scraper works well with your favourite curses or non-curses http clients


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    svn co http://simile.mit.edu/repository/crowbar/trunk&& cd ./trunk/xulapp/ xulrunner --install-app && Xvfb :1 && DISPLAY=:1 xulrunner application.ini 2>/dev/null 1>/dev/null && wget -O- "127.0.0.1:10000/&url=http://www.facebook.com"
    argv · 2010-10-16 05:12:11 3
  • Just added view with the eog viewer.


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    wget -O xkcd_$(date +%y-%m-%d).png `lynx --dump http://xkcd.com/|grep png`; eog xkcd_$(date +%y-%m-%d).png
    theanalyst · 2010-10-27 13:42:55 3
  • Is a simple script for video streaming a movie


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    cat video.ogg | nc -l -p 4232 & wget http://users.bshellz.net/~bazza/?nombre=name -O - & sleep 10; mplayer http://users.bshellz.net/~bazza/datos/name.ogg
    el_bazza · 2010-11-29 03:34:31 5
  • Substitute that 724349691704 with an UPC of a CD you have at hand, and (hopefully) this oneliner should return the $Artist - $Title, querying discogs.com. Yes, I know, all that head/tail/grep crap can be improved with a single sed command, feel free to send "patches" :D Enjoy! Show Sample Output


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    wget http://www.discogs.com/search?q=724349691704 -O foobar &> /dev/null ; grep \/release\/ foobar | head -2 | tail -1 | sed -e 's/^<div>.*>\(.*\)<\/a><\/div>/\1/' ; rm foobar
    TetsuyO · 2011-01-30 23:34:54 3
  • I wanted to play a song from the shell and get the shell back, I also dont want to store the file if it is not needed. edit, not sure if I need to mention it... killall vlc to stop it Show Sample Output


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    wget http://somesite.com/somestream.pls; cvlc somestream.pls&sleep 5; rm somestream.pls*
    tomjrace · 2011-08-04 19:24:18 3
  • This uses wget instead of curl


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    wget -q -O - http://www.perl.org/get.html | grep -m1 '\.tar\.gz' | sed 's/.*perl-//; s/\.tar\.gz.*//'
    dbbolton · 2011-08-19 23:38:10 3

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    wget ifconfig.me/ip -q -O -
    DamirX · 2011-11-30 08:30:35 3
  • Grabs the current weather in your area (or their best guess of your area). Change the query to your zip code/location (e.g. google.com/search?q=weather+jakarta,+india) to get weather somewhere else. change google.com to google.ca or google.co.uk for metric. Show Sample Output


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    wget -qO- -U '' 'google.com/search?q=weather' | grep -oP '(-)?\d{1,3}\xB0[FC]'
    slaufer · 2012-02-28 22:27:38 362

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    for i in $(wget -O- -U "" "http://wallbase.cc/random/23/e..." --quiet|grep wallpaper/|grep -oe 'http://wallbase.cc[^"]*'); do wget $(wget -O- -U "" $i --quiet|grep -oe 'http://[^"]*\.jpg');done
    mama21mama · 2012-08-19 11:06:30 20
  • This command should be copy-pasted in Windows, but very similar one will work on Linux. It uses wget and sed.


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    wget --no-check-certificate https://code.google.com/p/msysgit/downloads/list -O - 2>nul | sed -n "0,/.*\(\/\/msysgit.googlecode.com\/files\/Git-.*\.exe\).*/s//http:\1/p" | wget -i - -O Git-Latest.exe
    michfield · 2012-11-14 08:17:50 8
  • Sweep and download all mp3 (in French) of "Rendez-vous avec X" (Meet with M. X) of French public radio From 1997 http://rendezvousavecmrx.free.fr/audio/mr_x_1997_01_04.mp3 To 2015 http://rendezvousavecmrx.free.fr/audio/mr_x_2015_06_20.mp3 Balaye et telecharge les episodes depuis 1997 http://rendezvousavecmrx.free.fr/audio/mr_x_1997_01_04.mp3 jusqu'en 2015 http://rendezvousavecmrx.free.fr/audio/mr_x_2015_06_20.mp3


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    wget http://rendezvousavecmrx.free.fr/audio/mr_x_{1997..2015}_{01..12}_{01..31}.mp3
    pascalvaucheret · 2015-08-13 21:34:50 12
  • I've got this posted in one of my .bash_profiles for humor whenever I log in. Show Sample Output


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    wget -qO - snubster.com|sed -n '65p'|awk 'gsub(/<span><br>.*/,"")&&1'|perl -p -e 's:myScroller1.addItem\("<span class=atHeaderOrange>::g;s:</span> <span class=snubFontSmall>::g;s:&quot;:":g;s:^:\n:g;s:$:\n:'
    sil · 2009-02-18 15:05:13 6

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    wget http://checkip.dyndns.org && clear && echo && echo My IP && egrep -o '([[:digit:]]{1,3}\.){3}[[:digit:]]{1,3}' index.html && echo && rm index.html
    onkelchentobi · 2009-08-07 21:21:59 4
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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" }

Google Translate
$ translate [output-language] [source-language] 1) "some phrase" should be in quotes 2) [output-language] - optional (default: English) 3) [source-language] - optional (default: auto) $ translate "bonjour petit lapin" hello little rabbit $ translate "bonjour petit lapin" en hello little rabbit $ translate "bonjour petit lapin" en fr hello little rabbit

Calculate days on which Friday the 13th occurs (inspired from the work of the user justsomeguy)
Friday is the 5th day of the week, monday is the 1st. Output may be affected by locale.

Check if the LHC has destroyed the world
This says if the LHC has destroyed the world. Run it in a loop to monitor the state of Earth. Might not work reliable, if the world has actually been destroyed.

Use socat to emulate an SMTP mail SERVER
Lots of scripts show you how to use socat to send an email to an SMTP server; this command actually emulates an SMTP server! It assumes the client is only sending to one recipient, and it's not at all smart, but it'll capture the email into a log file and the client will stop retrying. I used this to diagnose what emails were being sent by cron and subsequently discarded, but you can use it for all sorts of things.

find the rpm package name that provides a specific file
For Linux distributions using rpm (eg Mandriva), this command will find the rpm package name that provides a file.

Redirect STDIN
Several times, I find myself hitting my up arrow, and changing the search term. Unfortunately, I find myself wasting too much time typing: $ grep kernel /var/log/messages Redirecting STDIN allows me to put the search term at the end so I less cursor movement to change what I'm searching for: $ < /var/log/messages grep kernel If you're using the emacs keyboard binding, then after you press your up arrow, press CTRL+w to erase the word. If this has already been submitted, I couldn't find it with the search utility.

dd with progress bar and statistics
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