Command List (ls)

Tip: For a list of particularly interesting Yubnub commands, check out Yubnub Golden Eggs. Also see the Most-Used Commands.

Tip: You can search the descriptions by typing "ls [word or phrase]". For example, to search for all commands about music, type "ls music".

reviewsite
Find reviews on particular web sites. Good to use when purchasing items from a new online vendor. Example: reviewsite buy.com
72 uses - Created 2007-08-06 22:27:42 - Last used 2010-12-03 05:51:05 - Nominate - Description - http://www.google.com/search?client=opera&rls=en&q=%s+review+-site:%s&sourceid=opera&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8

shopping.com
Search shopping.com for comparison between multiple online stores. Example: shopping.com shoes Keywords: online shopping
20 uses - Created 2007-08-06 22:24:27 - Last used 2011-08-11 11:12:13 - Nominate - Description - http://www.shopping.com/xFS?KW=%s&FN=&FD=0

yelpnyc
Yelp search with default location set to New York City. Location can be changed by using the -where handle. E.g. yelpnyc taco - searches for taco in NYC yelpnyc taco -where seattle - searches for taco in Seattle
484 uses - Created 2007-08-06 18:30:37 - Last used 2017-07-12 11:28:50 - Nominate - Description - http://www.yelp.com/search?find_desc=%s&ns=1&rpp=10&find_loc=${where=NYC}&action_search.x=0&action_search.y=0

crncy (Golden Egg)
Uses Yahoo Finance to convert an optional amount between any two currencies and shows price history for the two currencies. crncy Cr1Cr2 [-amount {AMOUNT}] [-time {1d|5d|3m|1y|2y|5y}] Cr1Cr2 is here the combination of two currencies you want to look at, e.g. USDGBP converts between USD and GBP -amount is an optional handle (set to 1 by default) e.g. -amount 100 -time is an optional handle that shows the historical price graph for the desired period (set to 3m by default), allowed inputs are 1d,…
263 uses - Created 2007-08-06 18:18:56 - Last used 2024-11-26 15:47:30 - Description - http://finance.yahoo.com/currency/convert?from={strleft {% 1 %s} 3}&to={strright {% 1 %s} 3}&amt=${amount=1}&t=${time=1y}

gulesider
Search the Norwegian Yellow Pages directory " Gule sider " E.g. gulesider politi
133 uses - Created 2007-08-06 14:43:14 - Last used 2013-09-23 06:05:01 - Nominate - Description - http://www.gulesider.no/gs/categoryList.c?q=%s

demauro
cerca parola nel dizionario italiano de mauro paravia
206 uses - Created 2007-08-06 00:53:24 - Last used 2013-12-20 17:24:08 - Nominate - Description - http://demauroparavia.it/_%s

metafilter
Searches Metafilter using Google site search.
278 uses - Created 2007-08-05 22:00:57 - Last used 2023-07-24 17:51:39 - Nominate - Description - http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=%s+site%3Awww.metafilter.com

duke
Search Duke University's site, duke.edu.
550 uses - Created 2007-08-05 17:38:01 - Last used 2025-11-04 04:35:48 - Nominate - Description - http://www.duke.edu/search/?q=%s

desktop

94 uses - Created 2007-08-05 17:26:40 - Last used 2023-10-18 08:48:16 - Nominate - Description - http://www.themesunlimited.com

chacha
People powered search engine. Can't figure out exactly how it works even though it's documented on the chacha.com page.
40 uses - Created 2007-08-05 15:26:01 - Last used 2023-02-13 18:38:01 - Nominate - Description - http://search.chacha.com/search/query?query=%s

jargonfile
Searches Eunjea's version of the jargon file (version 4.4.5) for the given term.
28 uses - Created 2007-08-04 17:33:06 - Last used 2011-02-01 22:54:09 - Nominate - Description - http://people.kldp.org/~eunjea/jargon/index.php?query=%s&keyword=on

}
}=http://cafelinux.org/OptickleArt/
178 uses - Created 2007-08-04 16:01:38 - Last used 2024-05-14 19:54:10 - Nominate - Description - http://cafelinux.org/OptickleArt/

resource
Writhed Resources. Writhed Resources has a large index of graphic premades and resources free to use.
41 uses - Created 2007-08-04 08:41:44 - Last used 2022-08-25 13:39:23 - Nominate - Description - http://writhed.proboards92.com

allr
Search recipes from allrecipes.com.
281 uses - Created 2007-08-04 06:16:08 - Last used 2016-12-10 14:42:11 - Nominate - Description - http://allrecipes.com/Search/Recipes.aspx?WithTerm=%s

kayak
Best travel site on the web
953 uses - Created 2007-08-03 10:06:34 - Last used 2025-01-24 10:13:56 - Nominate - Description - http://www.kayak.com

cdisc
To search in Cdiscount french shop.
10 uses - Created 2007-08-03 07:56:36 - Last used 2013-02-01 21:05:08 - Nominate - Description - http://www.cdiscount.com/search/%s/s-105.html?navid_nav=10&option_mode=0&q=%s

tadalist

46 uses - Created 2007-08-03 07:46:53 - Last used 2014-11-03 13:46:45 - Nominate - Description - http://smather.tadalist.com/account/login

filemp3
FileMp3.org Amazing source for torrent music
15 uses - Created 2007-08-03 03:37:57 - Last used 2020-11-07 07:09:27 - Nominate - Description - http://filemp3.org/browse.php?search=%s&image.x=0&image.y=0&image=Search%21

alpine
Lowest prices on Alpine car audio, Alpine car stereo, Alpine CD players, Alpine Stereo, Alpine Speakers and other Alpine accessories provided by Dynamic Sounds UK
70 uses - Created 2007-08-02 11:53:04 - Last used 2022-01-30 20:39:06 - Nominate - Description - http://www.dynamicsounds.co.uk/alpine-m-11.html

craigsatl
Craigslist search for Atlanta
48 uses - Created 2007-08-01 22:25:49 - Last used 2017-08-08 07:34:46 - Nominate - Description - http://atlanta.craigslist.org/search/sss?query=%s

ccase
Searches the IBM-Rational Clearcase support pages for the term
138 uses - Created 2007-08-01 20:25:03 - Last used 2019-07-16 18:14:45 - Nominate - Description - http://www-111.ibm.com/search/SupportSearchWeb/SupportSearch?action=search&pageCode=MBS&productKey=&clearAll=false&brand=rational&os=&searchTerms=%s

gfic
Google Finance Canada. This command looks up Canadian stock symbols using Google Finance's Canadian site. If no symbol exists, it will return search results. Example: gfic BMO, gfic Nortel
103 uses - Created 2007-08-01 19:53:18 - Last used 2012-12-20 22:11:45 - Nominate - Description - http://finance.google.ca/finance?q=%s

pcoke
Search for articles on the italian FLOSS-related blog pollycoke :) - Cerca articoli su pollycoke :)
13 uses - Created 2007-08-01 19:12:54 - Last used 2007-08-26 21:44:53 - Nominate - Description - http://pollycoke.wordpress.com/?s=%s

wpln
WikiPedia search on different languages SYNTAX wpln LANGUAGE 'SEARCH STRING' for LANGUAGE use any wikipedia language code like en - English ru - Russian de - German it - Italian he - Hebrew and so on ... EXAMPLE wp en green beer will search for green beer in english wikipedia
52 uses - Created 2007-08-01 14:31:44 - Last used 2011-06-01 16:57:06 - Nominate - Description - http://{% 1 %s}.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Search?search={% 2- %s}&go=Go[no url encoding]

ccm
Comment Ca Marche. French IT site http://www.commentcamarche.net/ Example: ccm BSOD Vista
54 uses - Created 2007-08-01 13:35:57 - Last used 2024-05-19 11:42:33 - Nominate - Description - http://www.commentcamarche.net/s/%s

gint
Search google with No Country Redirect, which means that if you have a localized version of Firefox, you won't be redirected to google's localized page (as with the command 'g'). Instead, you'll be able to search using the international version of google.
205 uses - Created 2007-08-01 11:54:38 - Last used 2024-06-01 12:13:21 - Nominate - Description - http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=%s&lr=

myipl
Check your IP, light version.
73 uses - Created 2007-08-01 11:23:37 - Last used 2008-09-05 11:08:39 - Nominate - Description - http://ipid.shat.net/iponly/

allds
Unlike the other parts searches this one simply searches alldatasheet.com since that is where I find most of the datasheets I need anyways.
209 uses - Created 2007-08-01 08:52:50 - Last used 2020-02-22 04:58:45 - Nominate - Description - http://www.alldatasheet.com/view.jsp?Searchword=%s

tlfn
Norwegian phone book info, valid for number and name check
158 uses - Created 2007-08-01 06:36:36 - Last used 2014-10-22 02:35:50 - Nominate - Description - http://www.gulesider.no/tk/search.c?q=%s&x=0&y=0

wrzuta
Search Wrzuta.pl for mp3. Example: wrzuta Eminem Wrzuta.pl is a good polish source of music.
107 uses - Created 2007-07-31 21:19:15 - Last used 2015-02-21 05:31:22 - Nominate - Description - http://www.wrzuta.pl/search.php?type=a&words=%s

connectionstring
Connection String Search on www.connectionstrings.com . To Find the Oracle ConnectionString format: Example: connectionstring oracle
45 uses - Created 2007-07-31 16:55:49 - Last used 2020-05-10 14:50:54 - Nominate - Description - http://www.connectionstrings.com/?carrier=%s

camp
Woodall's RV Camping Search. Searches Woodall's listings for campgrounds. To find a campground near a city, type state & city. Example: camp CA ventura To find campgrounds by state, just give the state Example: camp CA
266 uses - Created 2007-07-31 16:26:43 - Last used 2025-06-05 01:38:31 - Nominate - Description - http://www.woodalls.com/search/camp/index.cfm?Action=results&type=RV&s=%s&d=50[use &c= for spaces]

ssbb
NAME ssbb - Takes you to the US Super Smash Brothers Brawl website. SYNOPSIS ssbb Takes you to the US Super Smash Brothers Brawl website. It has daily weekday updates! AUTHOR Klink <mrthr33@gmail.com>
16 uses - Created 2007-07-31 13:37:09 - Last used 2010-02-11 08:48:52 - Nominate - Description - http://www.smashbros.com/en_us

codeplex
SYNOPSIS codeplex [keywords] EXAMPLE codeplex BizUnit Performs a search on CodePlex (http://www.codeplex.com) using the given keywords.
408 uses - Created 2007-07-31 11:12:41 - Last used 2020-08-22 10:31:20 - Nominate - Description - http://codeplex.com/Project/ProjectDirectory.aspx?ProjectSearchText=%s

tweak

33 uses - Created 2007-07-31 10:23:26 - Last used 2015-09-24 11:08:28 - Nominate - Description - http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/downloads/powertoys/xppowertoys.mspx

blk
This is a shorter search term for the other "blackle" command. Blackle is a darkened version of Google which saves energy.
1627 uses - Created 2007-07-31 09:25:58 - Last used 2023-09-25 16:05:44 - Nominate - Description - http://www.google.com/custom?hl=en&safe=off&client=pub-8993703457585266&channel=5474133811&cof=FORID%3A1%3BAH%3Aleft%3BS%3Ahttp%3A%2F%2Fwww.blackle.com%2F%3BCX%3ABlackle%3BL%3Ahttp%3A%2F%2Fwww.heapmedia.com%2Fblackle%2Flogo.jpg%3BLH%3A100%3BLP%3A1%3BBGC%3A%23000000%3BT%3A%23999999%3BLC%3A%23cccccc%3BVLC%3A%23667766%3BGALT%3A%23666666%3BGFNT%3A%23666666%3BGIMP%3A%23666666%3B&adkw=AELymgVeHyWpzfTf61HxXE7GvoNvB6seZGVsgycvchgLkHUgKRgmh07sb9Hw7FZjqXX-3IPt-ZRc4X71N-A2KERshfNb9mmtnoKCS4FXBoZkoe8C6KQTCeVpdNiF99VcfCYjsAr-JYiEcjrFzdyfF5YUbZBQZD-vMg&q=%s&btnG=Search&cx=013269018370076798483%3Agg7jrrhpsy4

verb
Search Verbivorous.com for a book, which you can later add to your shelf. By default it does a tag search. Example: verb -search Dracula will find books tagged with "Dracula". To specify the search type, add the -type option. verb -type isbn -search 0553212710 will search for a specific ISBN number.
43 uses - Created 2007-07-31 08:02:26 - Last used 2024-12-01 14:08:27 - Nominate - Description - http://www.verbivorous.com/${type=tag}/${search}

nbas

31 uses - Created 2007-07-31 01:36:25 - Last used 2017-11-11 18:04:11 - Nominate - Description - http://search.nba.com/search/promosearch?sp_a=sp10033e5e&sp_f=ISO-8859-1&sp-t=nba&sp_advanced=&sp_q=%s&x=41&y=8

ggreader
Google Groups: Google Reader
10 uses - Created 2007-07-30 15:35:41 - Last used 2010-05-22 21:11:11 - Nominate - Description - http://groups.google.com/group/Google-Labs-Reader

woww
Wowwiki search. Returns results from wowwiki's Google for domains search. Use just as you would the search field in wowwiki.
1297 uses - Created 2007-07-30 14:50:22 - Last used 2014-12-13 15:22:32 - Nominate - Description - http://www.wowpedia.org/index.php?title=Special:Search&search=%s&fulltext=Search

movrev
returns movie reviews on metacritic.com
492 uses - Created 2007-07-30 14:39:34 - Last used 2024-02-02 16:56:52 - Nominate - Description - http://www.metacritic.com/search/movie/%s/results

ytub
YouTube search
32 uses - Created 2007-07-30 13:05:17 - Last used 2025-11-03 12:54:12 - Nominate - Description - http://youtube.com/results?search_query=%s&search=

wback
Wayback machine command that actually works. It uses the Internet Archive's Wayback Machine to retrieve older versions of webpages, see http://www.archive.org/web/web.php
95 uses - Created 2007-07-30 12:12:29 - Last used 2025-10-31 07:57:23 - Nominate - Description - http://web.archive.org/web/*/%20%s[post]

alarm
Dynamic Sounds provide car alarms of popular companies including, Viper, Clifford, Tracker, and Avital on reasonable prices. Dynamic sounds is one of the leading companies of car Audio and video accessories in UK
105 uses - Created 2007-07-30 11:57:55 - Last used 2020-07-15 02:34:38 - Nominate - Description - http://www.dynamicsounds.co.uk/car-alarms-c-137.html

gather
This operates the Gatherer M:tG search engine. It takes the following parameters: -n : names -r : rules -t : type -f : flavor text -a : artist -c : cost -p : power -to: toughness for example gather serra angel -name gather mark tedin -a gather goblin legend -t gather lord of the pit - you always need to put - at the end of the query because of the stupid way I wrote it. -jules
66 uses - Created 2007-07-30 09:40:52 - Last used 2011-09-04 04:16:15 - Nominate - Description - http://ww2.wizards.com/gatherer/index.aspx?term={substring %s -start 1 -end {Subtract {strFind -find - -string %s} 1}}{ifMatch -pattern /-n/ -string %s -then &Field_Name=on -else}{ifMatch -pattern /-r/ -string %s -then &Field_Rules=on -else }{ifMatch -pattern /-t/ -string %s -then &Field_Type=on -else }{ifMatch -pattern /-f/ -string %s -then &Field_Flavor=on -else }{ifMatch -pattern /-a/ -string %s -then &Field_Artist=on -else }{ifMatch -pattern /-p/ -string %s -then &Field_Power=on -else }{ifMatch -pattern /-to/ -string %s -then &Field_Toughness=on -else }{ifMatch -pattern /-c/ -string %s -then &Field_Cost=on -else }

g#
clone for gde (it's horter)
181 uses - Created 2007-07-30 08:22:54 - Last used 2025-08-14 06:08:07 - Nominate - Description - http://www.google.de/search?hl=de&q=%s&btnG=Suche&meta=

goofy
Search on GoofyBlog.com
14 uses - Created 2007-07-30 01:57:31 - Last used 2015-04-26 18:14:21 - Nominate - Description - http://www.goofyblog.net/index.php?s=%s

ovt
oneview
113 uses - Created 2007-07-29 19:01:38 - Last used 2011-10-04 08:22:08 - Nominate - Description - http://www.oneview.de/tags/index.jsf?search=%s

test.yp.it
test for yp.it http://www.paginegialle.it/pg/cgi/pgsearch.cgi?btt=${btt=1}&ts=${ts=2}&l=1&cb=0&ind=${ind}&nc=&qs=${chi}${cosa}&dv=${dove} ts: can be 1 for what and 2 for who btt: 2 changes the visualization a little ind: near address - it will show the result in a map chi/cosa: who or what (exclusive parameter depending on ts) dove: province or region or empty for italy search eumeme
647 uses - Created 2007-07-29 18:53:58 - Last used 2014-12-17 12:30:17 - Nominate - Description - http://www.paginegialle.it/pg/cgi/pgsearch.cgi?btt=${btt=1}&ts=${ts=2}&l=1&cb=0&ind=${ind}&nc=&qs=${chi}${cosa}&dv=${dove}

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