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".

cinede
Search the webpage of the German movie magazine "cinema".
25 uses - Created 2006-12-17 14:33:40 - Last used 2009-07-01 13:16:45 - Nominate - Description - http://www.cinema.de/cin/suche?d_title=%s&suchtyp=suche

sxw
to open the world's popular sex website
79 uses - Created 2006-12-17 05:52:53 - Last used 2025-10-09 02:12:21 - Nominate - Description - http://www.worldsex.com

craigs
visit different Craigs List city sites using yubnub command line usage example: craigs austin -goes to http://austin.craigslist.org ~jbrown~
684 uses - Created 2006-12-16 21:32:36 - Last used 2025-07-28 12:54:40 - Nominate - Description - http://{ifthen -value1 %s -value2 -test NOTEQUAL -then %s -else www}.craigslist.org[no url encoding]

dlm
A shortened version of the DMotion command, which lets you search the French video sharing site, DailyMotion.com.
1872 uses - Created 2006-12-16 20:45:09 - Last used 2021-11-18 06:17:23 - Nominate - Description - http://www.dailymotion.com/relevance/search/%s

gaelic
Translation tool from English to Scottish Gaelic using Sabhal Mor's dictionary An Stòr-dàta Briathrachais Gàidhlig
44 uses - Created 2006-12-16 08:56:42 - Last used 2016-03-23 10:13:49 - Nominate - Description - http://www.smo.uhi.ac.uk/gaidhlig/faclair/sbg/lorg.php?facal=%s&seorsa=Beurla&tairg=Lorg&eis_saor=on'

verizon
verizon=https://www22.verizon.com/myaccount/?LOBCode=C&PromoTCode=ss025&PromoSrcCode=V&POEId=VU1MA
401 uses - Created 2006-12-16 00:26:26 - Last used 2024-07-23 07:11:47 - Nominate - Description - https://www22.verizon.com/myaccount/?LOBCode=C&PromoTCode=ss025&PromoSrcCode=V&POEId=VU1MA

clubsmalltalk
Searches the spanish speaking email archives of the smalltalk community
21 uses - Created 2006-12-16 00:18:00 - Last used 2007-10-23 21:42:21 - Nominate - Description - http://groups.google.com/groups/search?lr=&q=%s+group%3AclubSmalltalk

cingular
cingular=https://www.cingular.com/olam/loginAction.olamexecute
108 uses - Created 2006-12-15 23:35:35 - Last used 2014-07-19 20:12:15 - Nominate - Description - https://www.cingular.com/olam/loginAction.olamexecute

whocalled
If you get a phone call that you suspect is from a solicitor or organization, and you don't recognize the number, try this search. Others may have already figured it out for you. Example: whocalled 8664992758
37 uses - Created 2006-12-15 16:58:18 - Last used 2009-08-12 02:08:20 - Nominate - Description - http://whocalled.us/lookup/%s

ondoc

119 uses - Created 2006-12-15 11:45:41 - Last used 2011-04-05 09:52:53 - Nominate - Description - https://webcache.gmc-uk.org/ods/home.do

gpatent
Google Patent Search. To find patents which cites "WIMP Interface Considered Fatal", just type the title. Example: gpatent "WIMP Interface Considered Fatal" To find a patent by words in its title, use `intitle' keyword. Example: gpatent intitle:"personal computer" Related commands: gpat, patent, pat, marken, pto, pat2pdf, tradeus, tradeuk, pato
27 uses - Created 2006-12-15 11:45:34 - Last used 2013-02-07 23:08:47 - Nominate - Description - http://www.google.com/patents?num=100&q=%s&btnG=Search+Patents

2prong
2prong disposable email addresses. Optionally, specify an address. Author: MCAndre
37 uses - Created 2006-12-15 07:35:58 - Last used 2008-10-07 17:49:01 - Nominate - Description - http://2prong.com{ifThen -value1 %s -value2 -test NOTEQUAL -then ?email=%s -else /}

gpat
Google Patent Search http://www.google.com/patents
589 uses - Created 2006-12-15 01:28:53 - Last used 2025-06-18 08:49:26 - Nominate - Description - http://www.google.com/patents?q=%s

w-
RAWK Winter Transfer Forum - Closes around the beginning of February 2007
95 uses - Created 2006-12-14 11:45:21 - Last used 2019-02-11 08:51:25 - Nominate - Description - http://www.redandwhitekop.com/forum/index.php?board=31.0

ticker
Performs a search on Google finance of a stock ticker.
82 uses - Created 2006-12-14 04:15:18 - Last used 2025-09-02 01:16:26 - Nominate - Description - http://finance.google.com/finance?q=%s

coupon
BugMeNot for online coupons. coupon amazon will give you all the current coupons for Amazon.
1539 uses - Created 2006-12-14 02:21:11 - Last used 2025-05-20 14:36:11 - Nominate - Description - http://www.retailmenot.com/view/%s

qdef2test
NAME qdef2test -
13 uses - Created 2006-12-13 23:01:15 - Last used 2006-12-19 08:42:03 - Nominate - Description - echo <script>def=window.open('http://www.ninjawords.com/%s');setTimeout("def.close();history.go(-1);",${t=10}000);</script>

qdef (Golden Egg)
NAME qdef - Quick Definitions -- get a definition from ninjawords.com in a self-closing window. SYNOPSIS qdef [WORD] -t [OPTIONAL SECONDS] EXAMPLES qdef polysemy << pops open a window with the definition for "polysemy". It automatically closes in 10 seconds. qdef polysemy -t 20 << the same as before, but it waits 20 seconds before closing This command loads definitions from the excellent ninjawords.com. It automatically closes the definition window in 10 seconds. To change the length that the w…
1057 uses - Created 2006-12-13 22:55:25 - Last used 2025-10-19 21:21:16 - Description - echo <script>def=window.open('http://www.ninjawords.com/%s');setTimeout("def.close();history.go(-1);",${t=10}000);</script>

dwds
search the Digital Dictionary of the Contemporary German Language (Digitales Wörterbuch der Deutschen Gegenwartssprache) example: dwds wort
230 uses - Created 2006-12-13 12:00:56 - Last used 2025-05-02 02:42:42 - Nominate - Description - http://www.dwds.de/?woerterbuch=1&corpus=1&kompakt=1&sh=1&qu=%s&last_corpus=DWDS

articles

36 uses - Created 2006-12-13 05:03:59 - Last used 2015-06-23 15:25:30 - Nominate - Description - http://www.1888articles.com/finance-articles-4.html

ofcs
Search for reviews on the OFCS website
201 uses - Created 2006-12-13 03:43:27 - Last used 2010-08-14 15:09:04 - Nominate - Description - http://ofcs.rottentomatoes.com/search/search.php?searchby=by title&search=%s

ndu
Searches the University of Notre Dame website
120 uses - Created 2006-12-12 22:06:11 - Last used 2011-01-23 23:46:04 - Nominate - Description - http://search.nd.edu:8765/query.html?col=cwwwnded&col=flibs&col=bndnews&col=endsport&qt=+%s&charset=iso-8859-1

trycolor
NAME trycolor - See the color of a given HTML hex code SYNOPSIS trycolor [HTML COLOR HEX CODE] EXAMPLES trycolor 8A2BE2 AUTHOR b.a.
17 uses - Created 2006-12-12 20:54:58 - Last used 2011-06-20 08:14:39 - Nominate - Description - http://www.w3schools.com/tags/ref_color_tryit.asp?hex=%s

sgread
Secure Google Reader
1106 uses - Created 2006-12-12 20:30:21 - Last used 2012-03-19 23:37:02 - Nominate - Description - https://www.google.com/reader/view/

enno
Norwegian-English dictionary. Norsk-Engelsk ordbok.
39 uses - Created 2006-12-12 14:26:25 - Last used 2012-03-27 15:27:26 - Nominate - Description - http://www.tritrans.net/cgibin/translatees.cgi?spraak=Engelsk&Fra=%s&button=Buscar

noes
Diccionario noruego-español. Spansk-norsk. Norwegian-spanish dictionary.
313 uses - Created 2006-12-12 14:23:55 - Last used 2011-06-22 20:03:49 - Nominate - Description - http://www.tritrans.net/cgibin/translatees.cgi?spraak=Norsk&Fra=%s&button=Buscar

esno
Busca traducciones de palabras del español al noruego y al inglés. Diccionario español-noruego.
40 uses - Created 2006-12-12 14:21:38 - Last used 2008-01-09 17:55:19 - Nominate - Description - http://www.tritrans.net/cgibin/translatees.cgi?spraak=Spansk&Fra=%s&button=Buscar

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Lambda the Ultimate search
2148 uses - Created 2006-12-12 14:17:23 - Last used 2025-10-22 13:58:20 - Nominate - Description - http://lambda-the-ultimate.org/search/node/%s

resistor
Find the color code for a given resistor value. Also determines the closest standard value (from te relevant E-range) and when not exact will try to approximates the value with two standard resistors. The page is available in many languages. Example: resistor 4k7 -tol 5
119 uses - Created 2006-12-12 07:36:42 - Last used 2025-01-09 12:17:16 - Nominate - Description - http://www.okaphone.nl/calc/resistor.shtml?ohm=%s&tol=${tol}

calc5
NAME calc5 - function drawer SYNOPSIS calc5 [command] EXAMPLES calc5 graph3d(3/(x^2+y^2)*sin(x^2+y^2)) With calc5 you can plot 2d and 3d graphs, make symbolic calculations such as derivation, browse 2d graphs same way as you browse map in your favorite mapping service with zooming and panning. AUTHOR ZEGENVS
23 uses - Created 2006-12-12 07:18:20 - Last used 2010-04-26 22:33:15 - Nominate - Description - http://www.calc5.com/#%s[no url encoding]

willowgrovephotography
Wonderful photography by Melissa Williams.
12 uses - Created 2006-12-12 02:00:33 - Last used 2008-02-29 15:31:14 - Nominate - Description - http://willowgrovephotography.shutterfly.com

uchar
lookup a character in the unicode database
25 uses - Created 2006-12-11 23:09:54 - Last used 2022-01-05 14:52:26 - Nominate - Description - http://www.fileformat.info/info/unicode/char/search.htm?q=%s&preview=entity

\bot
Use the web interface to lambdabot, a haskell bot. If you just type \bot, it goes to the nice ajaxy interface. If you type \bot <something> , that something is run as a command and shown to you as plain text.
48 uses - Created 2006-12-11 22:09:38 - Last used 2017-08-22 09:30:08 - Nominate - Description - http://lambdabot.codersbase.com{ifThen -value1 %s -value2 -test NOTEQUAL -then /bot.fcgi?cmd=%s}

gjson
does a google search and returns the URLS of first results as a json array.
18 uses - Created 2006-12-11 21:49:12 - Last used 2021-03-04 20:14:04 - Nominate - Description - match -url http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=%s&btnG=Google+Search -as json -pattern /<a class=l href="(.*?)">/ -capture 1

salesforce
Access to salesforcce.com login page bypassing all of the marketing crap!
412 uses - Created 2006-12-11 20:13:32 - Last used 2025-09-29 08:25:02 - Nominate - Description - https://www.salesforce.com/login.jsp

faf (Golden Egg)
Fire and forget. Runs the yubnub command and then goes back to the page you were on.
985 uses - Created 2006-12-11 18:43:01 - Last used 2023-11-19 07:18:01 - Description - echo <iframe src="{url %s}" onload="history.go(-1)" style="display:none">

xing

4782 uses - Created 2006-12-11 17:59:23 - Last used 2025-09-01 05:59:04 - Nominate - Description - https://www.xing.com/app/search?op=universal&universal=%s

drink
Search the Anytini.com recipe database for a drink recipe.
152 uses - Created 2006-12-11 17:56:09 - Last used 2023-03-29 11:10:20 - Nominate - Description - http://www.anytini.com/recipe/search?q=%s

twu (Golden Egg)
Updates your twitter status and then redirects to the twitter homepage.
682 uses - Created 2006-12-11 16:53:05 - Last used 2025-10-01 05:11:38 - Description - both twiu %s -and twi

both (Golden Egg)
Executes 2 yubnub commands in sequence (client-side) Example: both command1 -and command2
1210 uses - Created 2006-12-11 16:49:36 - Last used 2021-11-07 06:46:18 - Description - echo <iframe src="{url %s}" onload="location='{url ${and}}'" style="display:none">

twiu (Golden Egg)
Updates your twitter status
1442 uses - Created 2006-12-11 16:16:57 - Last used 2025-10-06 09:34:46 - Description - http://twitter.com/status/update?status=%s[post]

gmnl
Google Maps Dutch version search.
751 uses - Created 2006-12-11 16:06:03 - Last used 2014-08-12 00:33:49 - Nominate - Description - http://maps.google.nl/maps?q=%s

gdoc
Searches all Google Documents by keyword
2916 uses - Created 2006-12-11 15:59:16 - Last used 2024-05-26 11:45:54 - Nominate - Description - http://docs.google.com/?searchString=%s&action=search&searchTag=

gtag
Opens Google Docs by tags
39 uses - Created 2006-12-11 12:19:07 - Last used 2020-08-06 10:20:32 - Nominate - Description - http://docs.google.com/?action=search&searchTag=%s

gplex
From the googleplex. Google Video's of tech talks.
18 uses - Created 2006-12-11 09:47:01 - Last used 2020-04-11 12:32:02 - Nominate - Description - http://video.google.com/videosearch?q=type%3Agoogle+engEDU+%s

gcodes
Google Code Search. Searches open source code for given string. does regexp and all.
578 uses - Created 2006-12-11 09:31:16 - Last used 2012-11-28 23:00:39 - Nominate - Description - http://www.google.com/codesearch?q=%s&hl=en&btnG=Search+Code

bahnontime
Shows if a train is on time on the specified train station.
281 uses - Created 2006-12-11 09:24:27 - Last used 2015-07-03 05:33:12 - Nominate - Description - http://reiseauskunft.bahn.de/bin/bhftafel.exe/dn?input=%s&boardType=dep&time=actual&start=Anzeigen

most
Most used commands
200 uses - Created 2006-12-11 09:24:13 - Last used 2021-11-21 10:17:59 - Nominate - Description - http://yubnub.org/kernel/most_used_commands

caltech
Search Caltech website
251 uses - Created 2006-12-11 09:15:40 - Last used 2016-06-08 10:34:03 - Nominate - Description - http://search.caltech.edu/search?q=%s&restrict=&btnG=Search&ie=&site=Caltechweb&output=xml_no_dtd&client=Caltechweb&lr=&proxystylesheet=Caltechweb&oe=

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