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".

desktopteam

109 uses - Created 2008-05-25 03:17:23 - Last used 2012-06-26 12:15:53 - Nominate - Description - http://my.opera.com/desktopteam/blog

iconv (Golden Egg)
Converts a string from one character set to another, similar to the iconv commmand/function in Unix and PHP. Example: iconv -from UTF-8 -to UTF-16 -str test The "from" and "to" parameters both default to UTF-8. //IGNORE and //TRANSLIT are supported; see http://us3.php.net/manual/en/function.iconv.php for more information. http://www.ibiblio.org/weidai/iconv_list.php lists known coded character sets.
130524 uses - Created 2008-05-25 01:59:04 - Last used 2021-08-14 11:33:19 - Description - http://www.ibiblio.org/weidai/iconv.php?from=${from=UTF-8}&to=${to=UTF-8}&str=${str}

sslpackage

20 uses - Created 2008-05-24 20:12:30 - Last used 2008-06-04 19:49:09 - Nominate - Description - http://tinyurl.com/4yw928

jezza

20 uses - Created 2008-05-24 19:22:49 - Last used 2008-05-30 02:21:01 - Nominate - Description - http://www.magicforest.co.uk/index.htm

wopr
Woody's Lounge
25 uses - Created 2008-05-24 19:21:06 - Last used 2013-08-30 02:58:11 - Nominate - Description - http://www.wopr.com/cgi-bin/w3t/wwwthreads.pl?Cat=

2geek
Searches tips and others in www.HowToGeek.com.
50 uses - Created 2008-05-24 16:48:23 - Last used 2016-10-11 10:42:33 - Nominate - Description - http://www.howtogeek.com/sitesearch/?cx=009481737823548119489%3Aw5lekpyovpo&cof=FORID%3A9&q=%s

gtru
Translate URL with Google Example: gtru fi en http://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kekkonen See also: gtr2, gtrs2
65 uses - Created 2008-05-24 15:01:31 - Last used 2023-01-03 00:43:03 - Nominate - Description - https://translate.google.com/translate?u={% 3- %s}&sl={% 1 %s}&tl={% 2 %s}[use for spaces]

gtr2
Translate text with Google Example: gtr2 en fr translate me See also: gtrs2
158 uses - Created 2008-05-24 14:45:14 - Last used 2020-03-30 07:59:43 - Nominate - Description - https://translate.google.com/translate_t?q={strReplace -find " " -replace + -string {% 3- %s}}&sl={% 1 %s}&tl={% 2 %s}[use for spaces]

gsafe
Runs Google Safe Browsing Diagnostic on the given website http://googleonlinesecurity.blogspot.com/2008/05/safe-browsing-diagnostic-to-rescue.html
38 uses - Created 2008-05-24 03:33:06 - Last used 2015-01-06 08:15:03 - Nominate - Description - http://www.google.com/safebrowsing/diagnostic?site=%s

anjuna
Directly Link to www.anjunabeats.com - The best Trance Label of the world
77 uses - Created 2008-05-23 19:18:46 - Last used 2010-12-07 14:17:38 - Nominate - Description - http://www.anjunabeats.com

rpds
Rapidshare files searcher
57 uses - Created 2008-05-23 16:26:56 - Last used 2017-07-28 06:51:46 - Nominate - Description - http://fileshunt.com/?q=%s&ftype=0

megas
A searcher of megaupload archives
305 uses - Created 2008-05-23 16:18:19 - Last used 2023-11-04 14:44:03 - Nominate - Description - http://www.megadownload.net/search.html?keyword=%s&submit=Search&server﷐5B﷐5D=megaupload.com&server﷐5B﷐5D=rapidshare.com

4sh
To perform searches on the site 4shared.com Very good for quickly download soft and stuff! Thank a lost for this amazing site!
471 uses - Created 2008-05-23 16:01:47 - Last used 2017-10-26 03:55:23 - Nominate - Description - http://www.4shared.com/network/search.jsp?searchmode=2&searchName=%s

vps
Search ServerGrove Web Hosting Knowledge Base, full of tips and tricks on how get the most of ServerGrove VPS (Virtual Private Servers) service.
68 uses - Created 2008-05-23 14:39:55 - Last used 2024-07-10 14:10:14 - Nominate - Description - http://my.servergrove.com/knowledgebase.php?action=search&search=%s

pim

47 uses - Created 2008-05-23 10:51:43 - Last used 2025-05-04 16:59:41 - Nominate - Description - http://www.google.co.uk/search?hl=en&q=site%3Ahttp%3A%2F%2Fwww.hmrc.gov.uk%2Fmanuals%2FPIMMANUAL+%s&meta=

zet

13 uses - Created 2008-05-23 10:29:39 - Last used 2012-09-26 18:28:51 - Nominate - Description - http://www.zettels.info

msljp
Translates technical words (especially those from Microsoft products) from English into Japanese. Usage: msljp "whatever is to be translated" Try it with "msljp download" and the response should give "ダウンロード"
11 uses - Created 2008-05-23 06:38:55 - Last used 2008-07-02 15:07:37 - Nominate - Description - http://www.microsoft.com/language/en/us/search.mspx?sString=%s&langID=ja-jp

ustmyweb
Linked to specified personal web folders at the University of St.Thomas.
14 uses - Created 2008-05-23 02:58:48 - Last used 2008-06-19 03:02:29 - Nominate - Description - http://personal.stthomas.edu/%s

alc
Japanese <==> English Dictionary Search. Works like "SPA", but allows for both Japanese and English to be translated.
7175 uses - Created 2008-05-23 01:28:41 - Last used 2024-06-14 20:10:09 - Nominate - Description - http://eow.alc.co.jp/%s/UTF-8/?reg=sa

grphone
Gets a persons name that owns the specified greek phone number (with area code)
76 uses - Created 2008-05-23 00:24:45 - Last used 2014-08-30 01:34:28 - Nominate - Description - http://www.greekphones.info/index.php?phone=%s

randb
RandomBase.com an mp3 search engine with over 20,000,000 "songs."
17 uses - Created 2008-05-21 19:36:44 - Last used 2008-09-16 05:34:25 - Nominate - Description - http://www.randombase.com/random/fsearch/%s

oradoc10g
Search Oracle 10g documentation library
19 uses - Created 2008-05-21 18:12:14 - Last used 2017-08-04 13:54:03 - Nominate - Description - http://www.oracle.com/pls/db102/db102.vbook?search=%s

applekb
Apple Knowledge Base search. The KB-specific search at Apple is much better for technical searches.
133 uses - Created 2008-05-21 16:45:19 - Last used 2011-09-12 16:14:23 - Nominate - Description - http://support.apple.com/kb/index?page=search&src=support_site.kbase.search&q=%s

techm
Searches tech news at Techmeme.com
19 uses - Created 2008-05-21 14:27:30 - Last used 2023-04-22 13:42:55 - Nominate - Description - http://techmeme.com/search/query?q=%s&wm=false

techmeme
Searches tech news at Techmeme.com
196 uses - Created 2008-05-21 14:26:21 - Last used 2025-09-09 11:58:07 - Nominate - Description - http://techmeme.com/search/query?q=%s&wm=false

wplt
Lithuanian Wikipedia search
14 uses - Created 2008-05-21 14:20:13 - Last used 2012-04-20 14:24:33 - Nominate - Description - http://lt.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special%3ASearch&search=%s&ns0=1

Wonkette
Wonkette: The D.C. Gossip wrote an interesting post today onHere’s a
27 uses - Created 2008-05-21 11:28:28 - Last used 2016-01-04 05:27:25 - Nominate - Description - http://coverawards.com/2008/05/20/should-hillary-clinton-fight-on-2/

lfmar
Last.fm artists search. Example: lfmar johnny cash
17 uses - Created 2008-05-21 10:53:41 - Last used 2013-07-25 02:43:37 - Nominate - Description - http://www.last.fm/music/?m=artists&q=%s

lfmtr
Last.fm tracks search. Example: lfmtr bourgeois
67 uses - Created 2008-05-21 10:49:17 - Last used 2011-07-30 22:02:19 - Nominate - Description - http://www.last.fm/music/?m=tracks&q=%s

project
Navigates to Project playlist to search for song "Project %s" Same as command "playlist", but works on desktop
1106 uses - Created 2008-05-21 00:06:47 - Last used 2026-01-02 10:35:10 - Nominate - Description - http://search.playlist.com/tracks/%s

AYNAKY

11 uses - Created 2008-05-20 23:49:36 - Last used 2009-07-28 15:07:11 - Nominate - Description - http://www.d1g.com/a9waat/show/1474190

wowcurse
Curse gaming's wow addons.
63 uses - Created 2008-05-20 21:45:17 - Last used 2011-07-16 14:56:10 - Nominate - Description - http://wow.curse.com/downloads/addons/browse/?q=%s&s=1&x=0&y=0

gset
Google Sets. To see more prefixes if you know some of them, type: Example: gset mega, tera, giga, To find out most-mentioned UNIX command line commands, type: Example: gset man, cat SEE ALSO: sets, set
979 uses - Created 2008-05-20 00:21:38 - Last used 2025-11-10 03:35:31 - Nominate - Description - {runphp <? $a=explode(",", "%s"); echo "http://labs.google.com/sets?"; foreach($a as $i => $q) echo "q".($i+1)."=".urlencode(trim($q))."&"; echo "btn=Large+Set" ?>}[no url encoding]

nyut
NYU Campus Transportation Route E Schedule
20 uses - Created 2008-05-19 20:26:18 - Last used 2010-12-26 09:07:32 - Nominate - Description - http://www.nyu.edu/public.safety/transportation/routeE.inbound.pdf

webtrans
Translate an URL from one language to the other using Google translate webtrans <url> -lp <source language>_<destination language> EXAMPLE webtrans http://www.lemonde.fr : Translates LeMonde from french to english || webtrans {url wpen Cheese} -lp en_es : Translates the Cheese article on Wikipedia from Engish to Spanish Author VkLJ
11 uses - Created 2008-05-18 10:26:35 - Last used 2016-08-18 12:28:06 - Nominate - Description - http://66.196.80.202/babelfish/translate_url_content?.intl=en&lp=${lp=fr_en}&trurl=%s

chtv

245 uses - Created 2008-05-18 02:54:38 - Last used 2009-03-26 20:33:23 - Nominate - Description - http://www.collegehumor.com/chtv

gcz
Google.cz Search. Returns only czech results. Use it just how you use Google:) Example: gcz phrase
5424 uses - Created 2008-05-16 20:00:51 - Last used 2026-01-21 15:50:32 - Nominate - Description - http://www.google.cz/search?hl=cs&q=%s&lr=lang_cs

eplist
Wikipedia TV series episode list. Lists all the episodes of a given TV series.
29 uses - Created 2008-05-16 17:27:32 - Last used 2012-06-04 18:50:28 - Nominate - Description - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Search?search=List+of+%s+episodes&go=Go

tmpmail
Generate an easy to remember temporary e-mail address. You can use it to sign up at websites anonymously, and avoid spam this way. USAGE tmpmail : generate a random email address trashymail <inbox name> : get to the inbox of an address EXAMPLE Step 1: Type tmpmail to get a temporary email address (ie. grind21H@trashymail.com) and a link to get to the inbox. Step 2: Register somewhere with that valid e-mail Step 3: Type "trashymail grind21H" to check for the confirmation e-mail Author VkLJ
26 uses - Created 2008-05-16 17:08:36 - Last used 2011-12-04 20:23:09 - Nominate - Description - echo The temporary e-mail address is: {randwd}{randstring 4 -l off}@trashymail.com You can check for new e-mails {linktag {url trashymail {randwd}{randstring 4 -l off}}!!here} or with the YubNub command trashymail {randwd}{randstring 4 -l off} {linktag {curl tmpmail}!!Generate another one} 

curl
Gets the url which points to a YubNub command, without making the server perform the request. USAGE curl <command> EXAMPLE curl gim Trees : http://www.yubnub.org/parser/parse?command=gim+trees
651 uses - Created 2008-05-16 17:00:58 - Last used 2025-11-23 06:04:27 - Nominate - Description - echo http://www.yubnub.org/parser/parse?command={URLencode2 %s}

tempmail
Generate an easy to remember temporary e-mail address. You can use it to sign up at websites anonymously, and avoid spam this way. USAGE tempmail : generate an email address trashymail <inbox name> : get to the inbox of an address EXAMPLE Step 1: Type tempmail to get a temporary email address (grind21H@trashymail.com) Step 2: Register somewhere with that valid e-mail Step 3: Type "trashymail grind21H" to check for the confirmation e-mail Author VkLJ
319 uses - Created 2008-05-16 16:43:13 - Last used 2011-12-04 20:23:22 - Nominate - Description - echo The temporary e-mail address is: {randwd}{randstring 4 -l off}@trashymail.com You can check for new e-mails {linktag {url trashymail {randwd}{randstring 4 -l off}}!!here} or with the YubNub command trashymail {randwd}{randstring 4 -l off} {linktag {curl tmpmail}!!Generate another one} 

randstr
Alias for randstring. Check man randstring for help
10 uses - Created 2008-05-16 16:29:50 - Last used 2008-06-10 20:56:06 - Nominate - Description - randstring %s

randstring
Generates a random alphanumeric string. Useful for generating random passwords randstr <lenght> -n [on|off] -u [on|off] -l [on|off] -count <number of strings> -seed id.<string> <length> : Number of characters in the string -n : Whether you want numbers in the string (on) or not (off) -l : Whether you want lowercase letters in the string (on) or not (off) -u : Whether you want uppercase letters in the string (on) or not (off) -count : Number of strings you want to get -seed : How the data will b…
549 uses - Created 2008-05-16 16:28:18 - Last used 2017-10-12 23:51:18 - Nominate - Description - http://random.org/strings/?num=${count=1}&len=%s&digits=${n=on}&upperalpha=${u=on}&loweralpha=${l=on}&unique=on&format=plain&rnd=${seed=new}

linktag
USAGE linktag <url>!!<link caption> -t <target> Returns a hyperlink html code with the given text and destination EXAMPLES linktag {url g chocolate} : Link to a Google search for "chocolate" linktag www.google.com : Link to Google linktag www.google.com!!Search : Link to Google, with the text "Search" linktag www.google.com!!Search -t _blank : The link will open in a new window AUTHOR VkLJ
2188 uses - Created 2008-05-16 13:54:17 - Last used 2024-05-26 11:29:19 - Nominate - Description - runphp <? $a=split("!!","%s",2); if($a[1]=="") $a[1]=$a[0]; echo '<a href="'.$a[0].'" target="${t=_self}">'.$a[1].'</a>'; ?>

ptitle
ptitle <url> Gets the title of a webpage. If the page doesn't exist, it will return "Error". In order to avoid this, you should try ptitle+, though it may prove less reliable. EXAMPLES ptitle microsoft.com : Microsoft Corporation ptitle http://www.google.com : Google ptitle maikrowsopht.com : Error
123 uses - Created 2008-05-16 13:37:53 - Last used 2015-11-04 21:25:39 - Nominate - Description - scrape -tokens <title> </title> -dirs 0 0 -url {url simple %s}

vkeyboard
vkeyboard takes you to a javascript demo of a virtual keyboard that can be used to type text in a form field using a mouse. See http://debugger.ru/demo/projects/virtualkeyboard/demo_popup.html pablo7 AT inbox DOT com
41 uses - Created 2008-05-16 12:37:36 - Last used 2024-02-28 13:01:02 - Nominate - Description - http://debugger.ru/demo/projects/virtualkeyboard/

crunchbase
Search CrunchBase (fixed)
1052 uses - Created 2008-05-16 12:25:52 - Last used 2025-09-17 16:53:34 - Nominate - Description - http://www.crunchbase.com/search?query=%s&commit=Search

playlist
Project playlist search. Searches playlist.com for songs Enter "playlist (search perameters)"
140 uses - Created 2008-05-15 23:40:26 - Last used 2024-10-14 05:16:43 - Nominate - Description - http://www.playlist.com/iphone.php?searchfor=%s&search

vit
Vitalist online GTD to-do list
196 uses - Created 2008-05-15 20:39:24 - Last used 2024-10-22 19:50:21 - Nominate - Description - http://my.vitalist.com

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