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".

myyahoo
Bookmark for my.yahoo.com .
13 uses - Created 2007-07-04 20:10:45 - Last used 2011-05-01 13:05:09 - Nominate - Description - http://my.yahoo.com

phca
http://www.whitepages.ca/search/SingleField?q=%s WhitePages.ca Residential Directory Assistance Search Find phone book listings by searching based on name, address, or phone number. Examples: phca (206) 802-2120 phca 206-802-2120 phca John Smith, Toronto, ON phca John Smith, V4T 4E1 phca 4802 Third, Calgary, AB phca 4802 Third, G6E 8H3
138 uses - Created 2007-07-04 17:30:39 - Last used 2017-05-05 01:06:51 - Nominate - Description - http://www.whitepages.ca/search/SingleField?q=%s

dora
Online character store for toys, bedding, party supplies, school supplies and more!
35 uses - Created 2007-07-04 15:04:21 - Last used 2024-12-10 16:26:53 - Nominate - Description - http://www.heroesforkids.co.uk

gwe
Google Weather shortcut. Usage: "gwe [zip]" - Logan Koester <logan@logankoester.com>
1606 uses - Created 2007-07-04 10:54:05 - Last used 2026-01-20 10:15:16 - Nominate - Description - http://www.google.com/search?q=weather%3A%s

FSR

11 uses - Created 2007-07-03 23:22:50 - Last used 2014-03-10 03:00:48 - Nominate - Description - http://firestormraiders.guildportal.com/Guild.aspx?GuildID=183988&TabID=1555876

hobo
Search the hobocentral.net/forum/ Hobo is an Open Source extension to Ruby on Rails. - Logan Koester <logan@logankoester.com>
72 uses - Created 2007-07-03 13:58:09 - Last used 2023-09-10 11:18:25 - Nominate - Description - http://hobocentral.net/forum/search.php?search_keywords=%s&search_terms=any&search_author=&search_forum=-1&search_time=0&search_fields=all&search_cat=-1&sort_by=0&sort_dir=DESC&show_results=topics&return_chars=-1[post]

llfm
Listen to similar artists on last.fm. eg. llfm Aphex Twin to listen to artists like Aphex Twin.
333 uses - Created 2007-07-03 12:39:23 - Last used 2010-12-18 13:09:25 - Nominate - Description - http://www.last.fm/listen/artist/%s/similarartists

straightdope
Straight Dope (straightdope.com) search.
28 uses - Created 2007-07-02 23:47:29 - Last used 2010-02-19 18:36:28 - Nominate - Description - http://www.straightdope.com/script/search?terms=%s[post]

yng
YubNub Google Group bookmark and search. When called without parameters, redirects to http://groups.google.com/group/YubNub/. When parameters are given, performs a search within the YubNub Google Group.
33 uses - Created 2007-07-02 22:53:12 - Last used 2013-01-29 23:45:40 - Nominate - Description - http://groups.google.com/group/YubNub/{ifEmpty -value %s -then -else search?q=%s}

govid
Searches Google Video and limits results to just Google Video hosted videos
78 uses - Created 2007-07-02 21:18:45 - Last used 2011-07-06 21:40:42 - Nominate - Description - http://video.google.com/videosearch?q=site:video.google.com %s

pelis
Peliculas online, http://www.peliculasonline.net
84 uses - Created 2007-07-02 15:31:06 - Last used 2025-08-01 08:59:42 - Nominate - Description - http://www.peliculasonline.net/index.php?busqueda=%s

pingme
Checks if a url is online. If it is, it will optionally send you an email (or sms, of course) declaring so. If not, attempt to refresh the page every two minutes using JavaScript. Usage: pingme http://userscripts.org -email logan@logankoester.com - Logan Koester <logan@logankoester.com>
14 uses - Created 2007-07-02 15:09:27 - Last used 2019-02-16 07:35:31 - Nominate - Description - http://logankoester.com/tools/urls.php?action=pingmail&url=%s&email=${email}

gindex
Performs a google index search of defined terms (use term.term.term to ensure valid search. Search is restricted to indexof lists only.
749 uses - Created 2007-07-02 14:12:14 - Last used 2018-06-19 14:57:01 - Nominate - Description - http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=intitle%3A%22index.of%22%28mp3%7Cm4a%7Cavi%7Cdivx%29+%s+-php+-html+-htm+-asp+-cf+-jsp&btnG=Search

homegate
Searches homegate.ch for flats available for rent. USAGE: homegate -min-rent 300 -max-rent 500 -min-rooms 3 -max-rooms 5 -location Bern -min-area 40 -max-area 50 -type APPT
57 uses - Created 2007-07-02 13:25:33 - Last used 2024-12-27 05:42:15 - Nominate - Description - http://www.homegate.ch/homegate/objectlist?MY_BUTTON=SEARCH&CURRENT_PAGE=1&SORT_ORDER=+RENT+ASC&z_von=${min-rooms=egal}&z_bis=${max-rooms=egal}&p_von=${min-rent=unlim.}&p_bis=${max-rent=unlim.}&s_type=${type=egal}&s_location=${location}&m2_von=${min-area=egal}&m2_bis=${max-area=egal=}&v_ab=egal

tinyurl!
Chainable tinyurl creator, simply returns the new tinyurl as text. "tinyurl! [url]" to make it tiny, "tinyurl? [url]" to get the original :) Enjoy. - Logan Koester <logan@logankoester.com>
436 uses - Created 2007-07-02 09:21:38 - Last used 2022-12-05 03:07:18 - Nominate - Description - http://logankoester.com/tools/urls.php?action=tinyurl&url=%s

spring
korean public wikisite
413 uses - Created 2007-07-02 07:51:03 - Last used 2020-04-08 12:35:40 - Nominate - Description - http://www.springnote.com/ko/

tinyurl?
Resolves a TinyURL to it's original (probably huge) url. Example: "tinyurl? http://tinyurl.com/2ocfun" => "http://logankoester.com" - Logan Koester <logan@logankoester.com>
239 uses - Created 2007-07-02 07:12:15 - Last used 2021-05-30 12:31:17 - Nominate - Description - http://logankoester.com/tools/urls.php?action=reverse_tinyurl&url=%s

deconstruct
Decodes and breaks down a long multi-argument URL into something readable. Click "View source" if you are using this a browser. Usage: deconstruct http://example/?foo=1&bar=2&baz=3 Result: http://example ?foo=1 &bar=2 &baz=3
19 uses - Created 2007-07-02 05:55:47 - Last used 2020-12-12 05:07:14 - Nominate - Description - http://logankoester.com/tools/urls.php?action=deconstruct&url=%s[post]

programacion
Blog over computation
49 uses - Created 2007-07-02 02:13:44 - Last used 2019-12-25 10:07:30 - Nominate - Description - http://prog-asm.blogspot.com

saft
Search book titles in O'Reilly's Safari Books Online. Example: saft PHP Cookbook
764 uses - Created 2007-07-02 02:11:17 - Last used 2026-01-11 00:37:04 - Nominate - Description - http://safari.oreilly.com/search?&__ASSearchFor=SearchForAllBooks&__advancedsearchtextbox=&__ASHowSearch=ASSearchAll&__ASSearchIn=ASFullText&__ASWordsInTitle=%s&__ASPrimaryCategory=&__ASAuthor=&__ASISBN=&__ASYearFrom=&__ASYearTo=&__submit.x=0&__submit.y=0&__submit=Search&search=&NewSearch=1&page=0&searchview=summary&__searchmode=advanced&sort=rank&order=desc

gplay
Listen to online music files. Ex: gplay http://www.musopen.com/files/Edvard%20Grieg/Piano%20Concerto%20in%20A%20Minor,%20Op.%2016%20-%20I.%20Allegro%20molto%20moderato.mp3 fro
277 uses - Created 2007-07-02 02:04:28 - Last used 2025-12-20 08:42:45 - Nominate - Description - echo <embed type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" src="http://mail.google.com/mail/html/audio.swf?audioUrl=%s" height="27" width="320"></embed>

mozin
NAME mozin - mozillaZine Forums Search EXAMPLES mozin "firefox icons" NOTES Custom Google search, better than the old forum search at http://forums.mozillazine.org/search.php
40 uses - Created 2007-07-01 20:11:45 - Last used 2017-03-22 15:15:22 - Nominate - Description - http://www.google.com/custom?cx=003258325049489668794%3Adrr0nlojlas&q=%s&sa=Go&cof=GFNT%3A%23006666%3BGALT%3A%23006666%3BLH%3A77%3BCX%3AmozillaZine%3BVLC%3A%23499F9F%3BDIV%3A%23006666%3BFORID%3A1%3BT%3A%23000000%3BALC%3A%230000CC%3BLC%3A%230000CC%3BS%3Ahttp%3A%2F%2Fforums.mozillazine.org%2F%3BL%3Ahttp%3A%2F%2Fwww.mozillazine.org%2Fimage%2Fgoogle.gif%3BGIMP%3A%23006666%3BLP%3A1%3BBGC%3A%23FFFFFF%3BAH%3Aleft&adkw=AELymgVXBbHLSFJmhlW4rVoVTyZuI-N5DfpD4854hy5yMvMhqQXEgrq3P1CYCjQ8N3FM1qFB3gRFb5n9Sf-2bVRkojytu4L1Mh8JkBCEV8Px1jx6Bc0J3zEmR2MTKS7D8z9J7-ovE06a&hl=en&client=pub-0651448570352947&channel=1865727845

ukymail
The Command ukymail takes you to the UK yahoo email login page which is where you go when you want to access your .co.uk email as in myemail@yahoo.co.uk.
95 uses - Created 2007-07-01 11:01:27 - Last used 2007-10-15 03:28:26 - Nominate - Description - http://edit.europe.yahoo.com/config/mail?.intl=uk&done=http://uk.yahoo.com

findavi
search google.com for avis
15 uses - Created 2007-07-01 10:45:26 - Last used 2007-12-10 01:22:37 - Nominate - Description - http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=intitle%3A%22index.of%22+%28avi%29+%s+-html+-htm+-php+-asp+-cf+-jsp&btnG=Search

findsong
search google.com for mp3s
44 uses - Created 2007-07-01 10:07:52 - Last used 2014-04-16 22:58:43 - Nominate - Description - http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=intitle%3A%22index.of%22+%28mp3%29+%s+-html+-htm+-php+-asp+-cf+-jsp&btnG=Buscar&meta=

fontb
Flash app that lets you browse the fonts on your computer, with sample text.
13 uses - Created 2007-06-30 18:40:26 - Last used 2018-08-17 09:44:13 - Nominate - Description - http://www.stcassociates.com/lab/fontbrowser.html

ocaml
Objective Caml Library search.
451 uses - Created 2007-06-29 21:34:34 - Last used 2025-05-24 08:07:06 - Nominate - Description - http://caml.inria.fr//cgi-bin/search.en.cgi?words=%s&corpus=library-ocaml

ustfmp

31 uses - Created 2007-06-29 18:25:15 - Last used 2008-07-29 20:26:25 - Nominate - Description - http://140.209.38.30:591/FMRes/FMPJS?-db=UST%5fINVT.FP5&-layID=69&-token=25&-max=1&-format=formvwcss.htm&-mode=browse&-findall

sfsu
This will search the communications directory of San Francisco State University. To find someone or some office on campus just type: sfsu <name> Example: sfsu Poets
71 uses - Created 2007-06-29 17:58:35 - Last used 2012-12-12 21:14:02 - Nominate - Description - http://www.sfsu.edu/cgi-bin/htsearch?restrict=direct&exclude=%22%22&words=%22%s%22

vnc
Virtual Network Computing
170 uses - Created 2007-06-29 08:44:14 - Last used 2020-04-09 04:50:36 - Nominate - Description - http://www.tightvnc.com/

callwave
Launches the callwave site.
39 uses - Created 2007-06-29 01:48:30 - Last used 2010-05-03 15:46:09 - Nominate - Description - http://www.callwave.com/mobile/mpp.asp

fccid
Dude this needs to be here and someone please fixie
14 uses - Created 2007-06-28 22:55:16 - Last used 2014-06-13 22:55:04 - Nominate - Description - https://gullfoss2.fcc.gov/oetcf/eas/reports/GenericSearch.cfm

parss
PARSS: (PortableAppsRSS) Allows you to subscribe to a comment thread from PortableApps.com via RSS. The PortableApps comment thread is run through HTML Tidy (http://cgi.w3.org/cgi-bin/tidy). The output is then transformed using a stylesheet from http://3amproductions.net/xml/rsscrape.xsl via the W3C XSLT service (http://www.w3.org/2005/08/online_xslt/xslt) Simply pass in the url of the comment page. Ex. parss http://portableapps.com/node/7364 ========== Old implementation: http://www.w3.org/200…
22 uses - Created 2007-06-28 17:48:56 - Last used 2009-07-30 20:19:59 - Nominate - Description - http://www.w3.org/2005/08/online_xslt/xslt?xslfile=http://3amproductions.net/xml/parss.xsl&xmlfile=http://cgi.w3.org/cgi-bin/tidy%3FdocAddr%3D%s%26forceXML%3Don&content-type=&submit=transform

draw
Outputs a figlet (ascii art) drawing of your text in one of 145 fonts. Check http://www.schnoggo.com/figlet.html for valid font names. Example: draw need more coffee!! -font ogre - Logan Koester <logan@logankoester.com>
282 uses - Created 2007-06-28 11:05:47 - Last used 2025-11-05 09:19:16 - Nominate - Description - http://www.schnoggo.com/cgi-bin/lonfig.pl?figstring=%s&font=${font=doom}.flf&justify=${justify=l}&width=${width=100}&kern=${kern=-2} | 2t

cleanup
Cleans the code with the tidy command and outputs the tidied html (instead of the errors and stuff) - Logan Koester <logan@logankoester.com>
29 uses - Created 2007-06-28 10:10:54 - Last used 2022-10-09 11:43:14 - Nominate - Description - http://logankoester.com/tools/tidy.php?q=%s

utopiacorp
Search informations about a secret organisation called Utopia Corp.
10 uses - Created 2007-06-28 09:28:00 - Last used 2007-07-01 09:02:53 - Nominate - Description - http://www.google.com/search?hl=fr&q=site%3Autopiacorp.org&lr=

rtt
searches torrent site revolutiontt.net
188 uses - Created 2007-06-28 05:38:30 - Last used 2020-08-18 21:25:07 - Nominate - Description - http://www.revolutiontt.net/browse.php?search=%s&cat=0

wikiHow
wikiHow articles. You can type in an article name and it will direct you to it. Examples: wikiHow Speak Obenglobish --> http://www.wikihow.com/Speak-Obenglobish wikiHow Track-a-Bill --> http://www.wikihow.com/Track-a-Bill wikihow User:Choicefresh --> http://www.wikihow.com/User:Choicefresh
808 uses - Created 2007-06-28 04:34:28 - Last used 2021-01-17 08:23:29 - Nominate - Description - http://www.wikihow.com/%s[use - for spaces]

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)=http://ozenterprise.com/
83 uses - Created 2007-06-28 03:15:44 - Last used 2024-09-25 10:28:22 - Nominate - Description - http://ozenterprise.com/

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(=http://linuxnirvana.com/
54 uses - Created 2007-06-28 03:14:28 - Last used 2021-05-29 17:15:56 - Nominate - Description - http://linuxnirvana.com/

"
"=http://distropedia.com/
726 uses - Created 2007-06-28 03:12:29 - Last used 2026-01-27 06:35:26 - Nominate - Description - http://distropedia.com/

sgv2
Like 'sgv', but this time I got it right. THIS command actually searches http://video.google.com for videos at video.google.com and nowhere else. Why would you want to only search Google Video and not a larger video base like, say, YouTube? If YouTube has been blocked at your place of employment of course.
221 uses - Created 2007-06-28 00:07:58 - Last used 2014-08-05 09:13:00 - Nominate - Description - http://video.google.com/videosearch?q=site:video.google.com %s

meeb
A shortcut to the Meebo.com service. Meebo allows you to use aim, icq, yahoo, msn and gtalk in your web browser Registration is optional - a user name allows you to sign on with multiple accouts.
73 uses - Created 2007-06-27 20:33:39 - Last used 2013-06-30 12:52:38 - Nominate - Description - http://wwwl.meebo.com

fbg
Searches www.facebook.com's groups by David Baynard
41 uses - Created 2007-06-27 17:15:55 - Last used 2020-05-02 17:02:14 - Nominate - Description - http://hs.facebook.com/s.php?n=-1&k=20010&q=%s

gmys
Searches Myspace (via Google) for whatever search terms. e.g. You want to find a band's/artist's Myspace page but you don't know the exact URL and Myspace's search results are a bit cumbersome.
291 uses - Created 2007-06-27 17:14:16 - Last used 2011-08-22 16:39:58 - Nominate - Description - http://www.google.com/search?q=site:myspace.com %s

icanhascheezburger
I CAN HAS CHEEZBURGER by MCAndre
73 uses - Created 2007-06-27 17:09:39 - Last used 2012-01-01 16:52:04 - Nominate - Description - http://icanhascheezburger.com/

wsmn
To find german synonyms on www.wie-sagt-man-noch.de
319 uses - Created 2007-06-27 16:01:12 - Last used 2013-10-17 13:09:53 - Nominate - Description - http://www.wie-sagt-man-noch.de/synonyme/?q=%s

awks
SYNOPSIS awks [search term] EXAMPLE awks ntp Archlinux wiki search. Searches wiki.archlinux.org for the given search term.
100 uses - Created 2007-06-27 14:39:42 - Last used 2011-09-26 16:05:46 - Nominate - Description - http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Special:Search?search=%s&go=Go

afs
SYNOPSIS afs [search term] EXAMPLE afs pacman Searches bbs.archlinux.org for the given search term. Returns the results in topic format.
4570 uses - Created 2007-06-27 10:05:29 - Last used 2023-01-13 14:21:34 - Nominate - Description - http://bbs.archlinux.org/search.php?action=search&keywords=%s&author=&forum=-1&search_in=all&sort_by=0&sort_dir=DESC&show_as=topics&search=Submit

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