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Command List (ls)

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flazx
searches flazx.com site for computer related books. by Leo
20 uses - Created 2007-08-09 19:59:33 - Last used 2013-05-22 19:23:45 - Nominate - Description - http://www.flazx.com/search.php?p=%s&submit=Search

uch
Allows you to search the Ubuntu community help.
371 uses - Created 2007-08-09 16:25:09 - Last used 2023-08-11 22:34:23 - Nominate - Description - https://help.ubuntu.com/community/%s

searchproduct
Procura o produto nas lojas em Portugal Basta fazeres : searchproduct portatil toshiba para encontrares os preços dos computadores portateis toshiba à venda em Portugal!
10 uses - Created 2007-08-09 10:57:58 - Last used 2007-08-26 10:30:56 - Nominate - Description - http://www.baratix.com/search2?search_txt=%s

gsbo
simultaneous search on google books and google scholar e.g. gsbo "mental rotation" tinker (rewrite of gs2)
191 uses - Created 2007-08-09 09:19:45 - Last used 2023-02-10 00:17:05 - Nominate - Description - split {url[no url encoding] gs %s} {url[no url encoding] gbo %s}

clasno
Norwegian Clas Ohlson search. Clas Ohlson have tons of useful cheap stuff. To search the Clas Ohlson product database, just type a keyword: Example: clasno skruer
34 uses - Created 2007-08-09 08:49:45 - Last used 2012-11-17 20:01:02 - Nominate - Description - http://www.clasohlson.no/Search/ProductList.aspx?Keywords=%s

jcr
Returns the Thomson Journal Citation Report for the given Journal Usage: jcr <journal_name> [-type <search_type>] search_types are: search_full_title : Full Journal Title search_j20 : Abbreviated Journal Title search_title_word : Title Word search_issn : ISSN default search_type is search_full_title Example: jcr Annual Review of Neuroscience jcr annu rev neurosci -type search_j20 jcr neuroscience -type search_title_word jcr 0147-006X -type search_issn Full list of journal titles can be found he…
65 uses - Created 2007-08-09 06:41:20 - Last used 2018-05-17 08:17:26 - Nominate - Description - http://admin.isiknowledge.com/JCR/JCR?RQ=LIST_SUMMARY_JOURNAL&query_new=true&query_type=${type=search_full_title}&query_data=%s[post]

Gphraseus
Automatically adds quotations to your search phrase, as well as "&gl=US".
188566 uses - Created 2007-08-09 03:02:51 - Last used 2025-01-20 08:18:47 - Nominate - Description - http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=%22%s%22&btnG=Google+Search&gl=US

rubyurl
RubyURL - Shorten long URLs by MCAndre
60 uses - Created 2007-08-08 21:52:59 - Last used 2010-03-29 18:39:39 - Nominate - Description - http://rubyurl.com/rubyurl/remote?website_url=%s

myicomp
30dc tool. Automatically checks phrase against MYI
189286 uses - Created 2007-08-08 21:04:10 - Last used 2014-02-02 12:13:49 - Nominate - Description - http://www.google.com/trends?q=male+yeast+infection%2C+%22%s%22&ctab=0&geo=all&date=all&sort=0

Gphrase
Google phrase search. Automatically includes quotations to search.
748 uses - Created 2007-08-08 20:55:51 - Last used 2009-06-08 12:01:05 - Nominate - Description - http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=%22%s%22&btnG=Google+Search

shorten
shorten - Shorten long URLs by MCAndre
161 uses - Created 2007-08-08 19:45:17 - Last used 2025-09-07 08:52:51 - Nominate - Description - http://metamark.net/add/popup?long_url=%s

href
href.nu - Make long URLs shorter by MCAndre
55 uses - Created 2007-08-08 19:15:57 - Last used 2017-05-15 06:53:17 - Nominate - Description - http://href.nu/cgi/new.rb?iri=%s

opens
checks opensubtitles.org for english subs - by asymmetric
1160 uses - Created 2007-08-08 12:43:23 - Last used 2026-03-31 07:50:21 - Nominate - Description - http://www.opensubtitles.org/en/search2/sublanguageid-eng/moviename-%s

mcm
meta critic movie reviews
450 uses - Created 2007-08-08 10:09:13 - Last used 2023-02-27 13:05:44 - Nominate - Description - movrev %s

sagemath

46 uses - Created 2007-08-07 23:25:26 - Last used 2022-08-03 13:48:45 - Nominate - Description - http://google.com/custom?cx=002411183662849495023%3Aymym1qazpm4&q=%s&sa=Search&cof=AH%3Aleft%3BCX%3ASAGE%2520Search%2520Engine%3BDIV%3A%23cccccc%3BFORID%3A0%3BGFNT%3A%23666666%3BL%3Ahttp%3A%2F%2Fgoogle%2Ecom%2Fcoop%2Fimages%2Fgoogle_custom_search_sm%2Egif%3BLH%3A55%3BLP%3A1%3B&hl=en&client=google-coop

ttube
Searches through the tinytube database - great for mobile users loking for that youtube experience.
40 uses - Created 2007-08-07 22:55:41 - Last used 2011-05-11 22:59:32 - Nominate - Description - http://tinytube.net/search?q=%s

sbb
Fahrplanabfrage SBB.ch, Syntax: [Startort] -nach [Zielort]
2860 uses - Created 2007-08-07 21:07:10 - Last used 2026-02-13 20:38:21 - Nominate - Description - http://fahrplan.sbb.ch/bin/query.exe/dn?REQ0JourneyStopsS0G=%s&REQ0JourneyStopsS0A=1&REQ0JourneyStopsZ0G=${nach}&REQ0JourneyStopsZ0A=7&queryPageDisplayed=yes&REQ0JourneyStops1.0A=1&REQ0HafasSkipLongChanges=0&REQ0HafasMaxChangeTime=120&start=1

tightvnc
Tight VNC Server and Viewer ..::[DB]::..
129 uses - Created 2007-08-07 21:02:47 - Last used 2023-03-16 18:02:26 - Nominate - Description - http://superb-east.dl.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/vnc-tight/tightvnc-1.3.9_x86.zip

cnv (Golden Egg)
Conversion search. Convert anything to anything. Weight, Distance, Time, Currency, and more. | Examples: | cnv 30 feet to meter | cnv 100 usd to cad | cnv 20 fl oz to liter | cnv 500 days to years | cnv 1 year to seconds | cnv 80 kg to pounds Key words: Conversion convert metric imperial foreign exchange currency Author: Andreas T
1178 uses - Created 2007-08-07 17:22:43 - Last used 2025-09-20 06:12:59 - Description - scrape -tokens calc_img.gif <b> </b> -dirs 0 0 0 -url http://www.google.com/search?q=conversion+{strreplace -find " " -replace + -string %s}

ucc (Golden Egg)
Universal Currency Converter Usage: ucc <amount> <fromCurrency> <toCurrency> Example: ucc 100 USD EUR Currency 3 letter abbreviations available here: http://www.xe.com/iso4217.htm Thanks to Adrienne for inspiring this with the xe command. The main difference is the xe command requires switches, e.g -amount -to -from, because {% n } was not available when it was created. Author: Sam Inverso
6110 uses - Created 2007-08-07 06:49:05 - Last used 2025-10-02 06:37:24 - Description - http://www.xe.com/ucc/convert.cgi?Amount={% 1 %s}&From={% 2 %s}&To={% 3 %s}[no url encoding]

iut
I Use This Search. Example: iut mail
1587 uses - Created 2007-08-06 23:44:36 - Last used 2018-08-27 11:26:27 - Nominate - Description - http://osx.iusethis.com/search?q=%s

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.
551 uses - Created 2007-08-05 17:38:01 - Last used 2025-11-16 03:21:28 - 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

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