Download entire commandlinefu archive to single file

for x in `jot - 0 \`curl "http://www.commandlinefu.com/commands/browse"|grep "Terminal - All commands" |perl -pe 's/.+(\d+),(\d+).+/$1$2/'|head -n1\` 25`; do curl "http://www.commandlinefu.com/commands/browse/sort-by-votes/plaintext/$x" ; done >a.txt

This is an extension of a previous command by satyavvd on 2009-07-23 12:04:02, but this one grabs the whole archive. Hard coded numbers in previous script capped number of commands that could be fetched. This one grabs them all regardless of how big the archive gets.

Sample Output

# SSH connection through host in the middle
ssh -t reachable_host ssh unreachable_host

# 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
sudo dd if=/dev/mem | cat | strings

# Watch Star Wars via telnet
telnet towel.blinkenlights.nl

# Backticks are evil
echo "The date is: $(date +%D)"

By: stinkerweed999

2009-08-25 21:57:15

grep head perl

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megerdin · 796 weeks and 6 days ago

I haven't tested it, but I can see one potential problem: 'jot' does not come with most *nix distros, however though it does come with the OSX. I would advice the creator or end user to use 'seq'. seq 0 10

Abiden · 796 weeks and 6 days ago

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What do you think?

Any thoughts on this command? Does it work on your machine? Can you do the same thing with only 14 characters?

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