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".

1and1admin
Takes you to the customer login for 1and1.com - an affordable, reliable internet hosting provider.
226 uses - Created 2006-08-07 01:36:10 - Last used 2012-04-23 18:00:30 - Nominate - Description - http://admin.1and1.com

1and1
Takes you to the main page of 1and1.com - an affordable, reliable, internet hosting provider.
216 uses - Created 2006-08-07 01:34:57 - Last used 2025-07-22 02:26:48 - Nominate - Description - http://1and1.com

qc
Questionable Content: New comics every Monday through Friday
2863 uses - Created 2006-08-07 01:19:27 - Last used 2021-02-07 16:22:05 - Nominate - Description - http://www.questionablecontent.net/

whitehouse

22 uses - Created 2006-08-07 01:13:45 - Last used 2023-01-03 13:32:08 - Nominate - Description - http://www.whitehouse.gov

bulbapedia
pokemon wiki searches whatever you type ie bulbasaur
151 uses - Created 2006-08-07 01:06:40 - Last used 2023-11-20 19:51:51 - Nominate - Description - http://bulbapedia.bulbagarden.net/wiki/Special:Search?search=%&go=Go

mlsca
Searches the www.mls.ca for Canadian property by MLS number
15 uses - Created 2006-08-06 22:39:35 - Last used 2014-05-20 10:43:24 - Nominate - Description - http://www.mls.ca/Disclaimer.aspx?Mode=5&id=%s

ukweather
bbc uk weather
12 uses - Created 2006-08-06 21:58:18 - Last used 2009-05-23 09:05:19 - Nominate - Description - http://www.bbc.co.uk/weather/

bassmasta
link to bass masta website
24 uses - Created 2006-08-06 16:49:55 - Last used 2006-09-21 19:32:38 - Nominate - Description - http://www.bassmasta.net

getip
display your public ip address. there are others, but this is useful because it returns Nothing but your ip address (useful for embedding this command in other commands, eg. ip {getip})
115 uses - Created 2006-08-06 13:18:13 - Last used 2014-07-09 12:32:22 - Nominate - Description - http://www.whatismyip.org/

aes
encrypt text using 256-bit AES. usage: aes text to encrypt [-p password]
122 uses - Created 2006-08-06 12:58:47 - Last used 2024-10-17 10:26:51 - Nominate - Description - https://www.steganos.com/en/freecrypt?sent=1&input=%s&password=${p=YubNubIsEwokForHooray}&password2=${p=YubNubIsEwokForHooray}&option=encrypt[post]

trtz
Do a search on Torrentz, a BitTorrent search engine which aggregates results from popular sites such as mininova and Torrentspy.
300 uses - Created 2006-08-06 12:41:13 - Last used 2012-04-04 19:49:56 - Nominate - Description - http://www.torrentz.com/search_%s[use - for spaces]

awstats
Get AWStats for the specified domain. . .
215 uses - Created 2006-08-06 10:27:36 - Last used 2023-12-26 05:25:40 - Nominate - Description - http://%s.com/AWStats/cgi-bin/awstats.pl?config=%s.com

windows

1373 uses - Created 2006-08-06 03:09:55 - Last used 2024-11-14 22:48:31 - Nominate - Description - http://www.live.com/

apple

2737 uses - Created 2006-08-06 03:08:57 - Last used 2025-04-24 11:03:50 - Nominate - Description - http://www.apple.com/

lowes
NAME lowes - Searches Lowe's Home Improvement website. SYNOPSIS lowes [KEYWORD] EXAMPLES lowes shovel lowes glove Just searches Lowe's Home Improvement website. No parameters. NOTES I would also like a Home Depot search, but can't decipher their search, even when changing forms to GET. I would also prefer this to take you to the Lowe's home page if no parameter is given, but I'm not sure how to do that either. AUTHOR Glench ( http://glench.com )
722 uses - Created 2006-08-06 02:52:10 - Last used 2025-03-22 10:08:23 - Nominate - Description - http://www.lowes.com/lowes/lkn?action=productList&N=0&Ntk=i_products&Ntt=%s

userscripts
Search userscripts.org for Greasemonkey (and similar) scripts.
1912 uses - Created 2006-08-06 00:08:38 - Last used 2023-01-18 17:35:57 - Nominate - Description - http://userscripts.org/scripts/search?q=%s&commit=Search

bookcloseouts
bookcloseouts.com bargain books search. Search for books listed on bookcloseouts.com. To search by keyword, just use the bookcloseouts command. Example: bookcloseouts paper airplanes This command also supports a -mode argument to limit your search to a particular category. Available choices are keywords, pf_name (for title), author, pf_id (for ISBN), and publisher. Example: bookcloseouts Hemingway -mode author NOTE: Despite what bookcloseouts.com says, this option does not seem to have any effe…
10 uses - Created 2006-08-05 14:00:20 - Last used 2009-05-14 02:03:25 - Nominate - Description - http://www.bookcloseouts.com/bc/xt_search.asp?mode=${mode=keywords}&string=${query=%s}

ytube
Preforms a search in youtube
7174 uses - Created 2006-08-05 13:42:05 - Last used 2024-09-03 02:15:15 - Nominate - Description - http://youtube.com/results?search_type=search_videos&search_sort=relevance&search_query=%s&search=Search

tind
Search Eastgate Tinderbox wiki.
14 uses - Created 2006-08-05 11:43:55 - Last used 2006-08-06 11:55:20 - Nominate - Description - http://www.eastgate.com/wiki2/wiki.cgi?search=%s

addo
Search Mozilla Addons site.
110 uses - Created 2006-08-05 11:40:34 - Last used 2024-08-23 09:08:16 - Nominate - Description - https://addons.mozilla.org/search.php?q=%s

mitg
MIT google Example: mitg wright brothers
58 uses - Created 2006-08-04 23:58:46 - Last used 2011-02-27 11:03:04 - Nominate - Description - http://gb-server.mit.edu/search?client=mit&site=mit&output=xml_no_dtd&ie=&oe=&as_dt=i&proxystylesheet=mit&num=50&as_q=%s

mitp
MIT People Directory/stalker database Takes a name as a parameter Example: mitp jack florey
397 uses - Created 2006-08-04 23:55:39 - Last used 2018-10-05 12:09:10 - Nominate - Description - http://web.mit.edu/bin/cgicso?query=%s

wienplan
usage: wienplan street houseno Will open the City map on Vienna on the given Street and Houseno. You can omit the housno or put points of interest example: wienplan laudongasse 21 wienplan westbahnhof
40 uses - Created 2006-08-04 16:41:34 - Last used 2012-01-06 12:31:14 - Nominate - Description - http://wien.at.c3o.org/stadtplan/%s

xbl
Xbox Live Profile Search To search for a gamertag just enter it Example: xbl broken1
193 uses - Created 2006-08-04 14:43:34 - Last used 2015-11-10 12:50:54 - Nominate - Description - http://live.xbox.com/member/%s

lucky2
Google web Search with Site Search. The site is specified with the aid of keywords. `lucky2' command is the Javascript implementation of the `lucky>>' command. See http://yubnub.org/kernel/man?args=lucky%3E%3E . SYNOPSYS lucky2 [KEYWORDS TO DESCRIBE SITE] -k [KEYWORD TO SEARCH WITHIN FOUND SITE] EXAMPLES lucky2 chicago tribune -k green roofs [returns Google results for articles at chicagotribune.com that mention 'green roofs'] lucky2 new york times -k pommes frites [returns Google results for a…
2883 uses - Created 2006-08-04 14:41:35 - Last used 2014-04-08 11:06:42 - Nominate - Description - echo <head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html;charset=UTF-8" ></head><body onload="site='{extractDomainName {luckyecho %s}}'; keywords=encodeURIComponent('${k}'); document.location='http://www.google.com/search?hl=${hl=en}&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&q='+keywords+'&safe=${safe=off}&btnG=Google+Search&domains='+site+'&sitesearch='+site" />

viennamap
Opens search interfaace of the map of Vienna, Austria.
12 uses - Created 2006-08-04 14:21:00 - Last used 2025-02-27 13:51:17 - Nominate - Description - http://www.wien.gv.at/stadtplan/

luckylucky
Open first result of the `lucky>>' command with the same parameters. (like `gfl' for `g'). See http://yubnub.org/kernel/man?args=lucky%3E%3E . Examples: luckylucky chicago tribune -k green roofs luckylucky new york times -k pommes frites
34 uses - Created 2006-08-04 11:56:00 - Last used 2019-03-15 17:31:15 - Nominate - Description - gfl site:{ extractDomainName { luckyecho %s } } ${k} [no url encoding]

fhi
Fritz-Haber-Institut der Max-Planck-Gesellschaft
13 uses - Created 2006-08-04 08:40:53 - Last used 2021-09-28 17:45:27 - Nominate - Description - http://www.fhi-berlin.mpg.de/search.epl?skey=%s

plot2
Plot, scientific 2D plotting program, reference manual
89 uses - Created 2006-08-04 07:11:48 - Last used 2009-07-07 19:55:05 - Nominate - Description - http://plot.micw.eu/?action=search&q=%s

ppb
PPB Homepage Search
15 uses - Created 2006-08-04 06:38:44 - Last used 2018-09-25 06:08:53 - Nominate - Description - http://ppbwiki.rz-berlin.mpg.de/?action=search&q=%s

llama
Search the vast knowledge of the llama. (redllama.net) ---------- Old implementation: http://www.redllama.net/index.php?name=Forums&file=search&mode=results&search_keywords=%s&search_terms=any&search_fields=all&sort_dir=DESC&show_results=topics
67 uses - Created 2006-08-04 06:31:33 - Last used 2025-01-09 17:03:31 - Nominate - Description - http://www.redllama.net/?s=%s

easyjet
Bookmark for Easyjet (www.easyjet.com).
601 uses - Created 2006-08-03 18:44:04 - Last used 2025-08-17 09:58:20 - Nominate - Description - http://www.easyjet.com/en/book/index.asp

latex
The Latex command refers you to weinelt.de, which offers a latex reference for all commands, very usefull type in: latex <command> for example: latex <tabular>
2972 uses - Created 2006-08-03 12:24:24 - Last used 2025-08-16 08:49:43 - Nominate - Description - http://www.weinelt.de/latex/%s.html

luckyxim
SYNOPSIS luckyxim [keywords] EXAMPLES luckyxim boobs Performs a Google Image Search for large *unfiltered* images using the given keywords and displays the first 20 results, full-size. Not for the faint of bandwidth. AUTHOR Eliazar elzr.com SEE ALSO xim & the lucky family of commands: luckygim, >, >>, >>>, l>, l>>, <, <<, <<<, luckyecho
153 uses - Created 2006-08-03 05:10:28 - Last used 2025-08-19 07:38:12 - Nominate - Description - http://elzr.com/yubnub/luckyxim/%s

luckygim (Golden Egg)
SYNOPSIS luckygim [keywords] EXAMPLES luckygim mid-flight luckygim Madonna luckygim Bellucci luckygim tide pool Performs a Google Image Search using the given keywords and displays the first 20 images, full-size. Not for the faint of bandwidth. AUTHOR Eliazar elzr.com SEE ALSO The lucky family of commands: luckyxim, >, >>, >>>, l>, l>>, <, <<, <<<, luckyecho
640 uses - Created 2006-08-03 05:06:53 - Last used 2021-01-17 20:57:49 - Description - http://elzr.com/yubnub/luckygim/%s

flight?
usage example: flight? -from FCO -to PVG -date 2006-08-03
23 uses - Created 2006-08-02 22:06:13 - Last used 2011-06-15 14:00:58 - Nominate - Description - http://www.flightstats.com/go/FlightStatus/flightStatusByRoute.do?departure=${from}&arrival={to}&departureDate=${date}&x=4&y=13

subfo
Searches Ubuntuforums.org using the quicksearch found on the ubuntuforums homepage subfo lamp searches for 'lamp'
3003 uses - Created 2006-08-02 19:40:24 - Last used 2012-09-18 12:23:07 - Nominate - Description - http://ubuntuforums.org/search.php?query=%s&do=process&quicksearch=1&showposts=0

trees
BitTrees is a social network based around trees of objects.
29 uses - Created 2006-08-02 15:21:42 - Last used 2022-01-26 12:32:32 - Nominate - Description - http://www.bittrees.com

bittrees
BitTrees is a social network based on trees of objects. Go and check it out.
15 uses - Created 2006-08-02 15:20:08 - Last used 2008-04-21 21:45:54 - Nominate - Description - http://www.bittrees.com

delete (Golden Egg)
To delete a tag from all your flickr photos which contain that specific tag for e.g. delete testing
756 uses - Created 2006-08-02 12:02:53 - Last used 2025-07-21 15:30:18 - Description - http://flickr.com/photos/me/tags/%s/delete

newsalloy

14 uses - Created 2006-08-02 11:47:00 - Last used 2008-10-07 21:19:22 - Nominate - Description - http://newsalloy.com/

rss2mail
You can subscribe via email to any RSS feed using http://www.r-mail.org . 
 
Usage: rss2mail RSS EMAIL
Where RSS is a rss' url and EMAIL is your email address. 

To subscribe to the podcast `-This Week in Science - The Kickass Science Podcast-', simply give the rss url and your email. 
Example: rss2mail http://www.twis.org/audio/podcast.rss your.email@should.be.placed.here.com 

Note: In a real query the `your.email@should.…
15 uses - Created 2006-08-02 06:32:37 - Last used 2009-03-10 15:47:32 - Nominate - Description - echo <html><head><script type="text/javascript">dc = document.cookie; prefix = "isRmailSet="; begin = dc.indexOf(prefix); document.cookie=prefix+"="+escape("%s"); if(begin != -1) document.write("<div id=done name=done>Done <div>rss: {% 1 %s}</div><div>email: {% 2 %s}</div></div>"); </script></head><body onload="if (! document.getElementById('done')) document.getElementsByTagName('form')[0].submit();"><form action='http://www.r-mail.org/' method='post'><input type='hidden' name='rss' value='{% 1 %s}' /><input type='hidden' name='mailto' value='{% 2 %s}' /><input style='color:white; border: none; background-color: white;' type='submit' value='Subscribe' /><a href='http://www.r-mail.org/'>R-mail powered</a></form></body></html>

sbemail
NAME sbemail - Takes you either to the strongbad emails menu, or to the strongbad email number specified. SYNOPSIS sbemail [EMAIL NUMBER (OPTIONAL)] AUTHOR Stephen Paul Weber a.k.a. Singpolyma http://singpolyma-tech.blogspot.com/
166 uses - Created 2006-08-02 02:35:37 - Last used 2014-02-22 16:29:27 - Nominate - Description - http://homestarrunner.com/sbemail%s.html

cityinfo
Find information on any US city. Type command "cityinfo (city name)". Results include pictures of city, current weather, population, all zip codes, map, household info,cultural breakdown, government info universities, k-12 school info, libraries, radio/tv stations, hospitals, crime rates, housing, important people, and a whole lot more.
21 uses - Created 2006-08-02 00:06:46 - Last used 2013-11-08 11:57:33 - Nominate - Description - http://veralab.com/plugins/cityinfo/fs.jsp?NM=%s

newstories

412 uses - Created 2006-08-01 22:42:16 - Last used 2010-07-01 03:28:58 - Nominate - Description - http://mcstories.com/WhatsNew.html

googr
Google Reader shortcut. Provide a tag name to jump to your items with that label. Example: googlr code
44 uses - Created 2006-08-01 20:47:25 - Last used 2011-01-27 01:09:21 - Nominate - Description - http://google.com/reader{eop /view/user/-/label/@%s@}

bkfg
Searches Bookfinder.com for German books. Parameters: -a for author, -t for title. Example: bkfg -a kaufmann -t ende der reformation
12 uses - Created 2006-08-01 18:14:16 - Last used 2009-01-15 18:55:02 - Nominate - Description - http://www.bookfinder.com/german/search/?author=${a}&title=${t}&submit=Begin+search&new_used=*&destination=us&currency=USD&mode=basic&st=sr&ac=qr

jroute
japanese route map
209 uses - Created 2006-08-01 15:17:02 - Last used 2009-10-10 01:30:43 - Nominate - Description - http://map.ocn.ne.jp/bg-bin/route.cgi

htmlrfc
Shows the HTMLized version of an RFC as given by http://tools.ietf.org/html/. Takes one parameter, namely the number of the requested RFC. Example: htmlrfc 2616 This works particularly well with the Firefox extension DocumentMap, as explained here: http://tools.ietf.org/inventory/reading-tools
145 uses - Created 2006-08-01 12:03:10 - Last used 2023-07-11 12:22:17 - Nominate - Description - http://tools.ietf.org/html/index.cgi?rfc=%s&draft=&url=

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