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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".

jamg
Jon Aquino's Mental Garden (my blog)
1029 uses - Created 2006-03-06 03:23:36 - Last used 2025-01-02 22:49:45 - Nominate - Description - http://jonaquino.blogspot.com/

encyclopedia
Search a collection of encyclopedia's using the new <a href="http://www.ask.com">ask.com</a> encyclopedia search. Examples: encyclopedia porsche 911 encyclopedia telephone
242 uses - Created 2006-03-05 23:19:39 - Last used 2024-10-19 17:36:03 - Nominate - Description - http://www.ask.com/web?q=%s&tool=enc

kernel

103 uses - Created 2006-03-05 20:42:25 - Last used 2025-06-24 17:50:37 - Nominate - Description - http://opensolaris.org

careers

39 uses - Created 2006-03-05 20:41:24 - Last used 2021-01-20 06:20:40 - Nominate - Description - http://www.asce.org/careers

browse

27 uses - Created 2006-03-05 20:24:13 - Last used 2018-01-22 03:51:06 - Nominate - Description - http://firefox.com

sql

346 uses - Created 2006-03-05 20:19:39 - Last used 2022-12-03 11:12:16 - Nominate - Description - http://www.mysql.org

solaris

57 uses - Created 2006-03-05 20:19:18 - Last used 2025-09-03 00:34:26 - Nominate - Description - http://opensolaris.org

ruby

757 uses - Created 2006-03-05 20:18:43 - Last used 2021-05-23 05:14:28 - Nominate - Description - http://www.rubyonrails.org

rubab
Use babelfish to translate a page from Russian to English Usage: type rubab followed by the URL of a page in Russian Example: rubab http://www.grani.ru
31 uses - Created 2006-03-05 20:14:17 - Last used 2007-02-14 01:54:05 - Nominate - Description - http://babelfish.altavista.com/tr?trurl=%s&lp=ru_en

construction

22 uses - Created 2006-03-05 20:09:09 - Last used 2018-02-22 09:22:54 - Nominate - Description - http://www.constructioninst.org

gkk
Performs a Google Korean search within Korean webpages using the given keywords. gkk is different from gk in that gkk searches only within korean webpages.
29 uses - Created 2006-03-05 19:46:06 - Last used 2018-07-14 18:40:44 - Nominate - Description - http://www.google.co.kr/search?q=%s&lr=lang_ko

usb
United Schranz Board :o) The Hardtechno-Family
266 uses - Created 2006-03-05 19:09:57 - Last used 2025-02-26 23:08:05 - Nominate - Description - http://usb.unitedsb.de/index.php

diigo
www.diigo.com community bookmarks tag search
452 uses - Created 2006-03-05 19:07:19 - Last used 2024-10-16 18:42:08 - Nominate - Description - http://www.diigo.com/tag/%s

blink
Search www.blinklist.com Tags
205 uses - Created 2006-03-05 18:53:34 - Last used 2025-05-23 03:38:02 - Nominate - Description - http://www.blinklist.com/tag/%s

dialfree

29 uses - Created 2006-03-05 14:01:39 - Last used 2007-05-03 05:17:36 - Nominate - Description - http://www.clicktel.com/en/dialer.asp?pin=g1681798

sar
add an entry to the database
80 uses - Created 2006-03-05 06:11:57 - Last used 2024-07-09 04:55:36 - Nominate - Description - http://www.saraswaticlasses.net/its4.php?mydata=%s

wr
Takes you to waiterrant.net, a good blog especially for those who've worked in the business.
440 uses - Created 2006-03-05 04:26:57 - Last used 2023-11-20 05:59:21 - Nominate - Description - http://waiterrant.net

RdFlIntShow
searches Flickr and displays photos for a random tag as a slideshow
11 uses - Created 2006-03-04 23:08:15 - Last used 2006-11-11 11:32:47 - Nominate - Description - flintshow {randwd}

ggw

18 uses - Created 2006-03-04 22:19:22 - Last used 2010-03-13 10:10:43 - Nominate - Description - http://girlsgonewild.com

so
Search stack overflow for your text
4016 uses - Created 2006-03-04 22:17:06 - Last used 2025-08-25 13:56:57 - Nominate - Description - http://stackoverflow.com/search?q=%s

wrf
Translates the text given into French using the extensive resource WordReference.com. This will give all different meanings of the word and common phrases used with the word. Only works with single words.
173 uses - Created 2006-03-04 18:38:03 - Last used 2017-01-24 08:53:12 - Nominate - Description - http://www.wordreference.com/enfr/%s

wrs
Translates the text given into Spanish using the extensive resource WordReference.com. This will give all different meanings of the word and common phrases used with the word. Only works with single words.
1963 uses - Created 2006-03-04 18:32:36 - Last used 2026-01-13 09:34:24 - Nominate - Description - http://www.wordreference.com/es/translation.asp?tranword=%s&dict=enes&B10=Search

mub
Search books at MU library
179 uses - Created 2006-03-04 16:25:22 - Last used 2013-09-11 13:19:24 - Nominate - Description - http://aleph.muni.cz/F?func=find-b&request=%s&find_code=WRD&adjacent=Y

tit
Search czech subtitles for given movie
167 uses - Created 2006-03-04 15:12:32 - Last used 2025-08-03 04:56:16 - Nominate - Description - http://www.subbiee.com/index.php?title=%s&lang=2&sourceid=Mozilla-search

bfs
bfs *** will translate the *** text from English to Spanish via AltaVista's Babelfish translation website
61 uses - Created 2006-03-04 14:05:16 - Last used 2023-12-21 04:57:41 - Nominate - Description - http://babelfish.altavista.com/tr?lp=en_es&trtext=%s

mnn
Search mininova for torrents
18522 uses - Created 2006-03-04 13:37:14 - Last used 2017-03-22 14:30:36 - Nominate - Description - http://mininova.org/search/?search=%s

discard
Takes you to Discardmail.com's free mail-account of your specified name.
22 uses - Created 2006-03-04 10:20:10 - Last used 2023-12-14 08:52:22 - Nominate - Description - http://discardmail.com/index.php?content=list&login_account=%s&login_domain=discardmail.com

gunix
Performs a Google BSD search using the given keywords.
113 uses - Created 2006-03-04 09:36:21 - Last used 2014-10-09 06:57:08 - Nominate - Description - http://www.google.com/bsd?q=%s

gil
to open the gmail uu simply type gil
51 uses - Created 2006-03-04 04:52:21 - Last used 2021-07-02 20:59:08 - Nominate - Description - http://gmail.com

vv
Searches http://www.newsvine.com example "vv iraq" shows all wire news, user submitted news, and user written content for the term iraq Note: at the time of this article, newsvine is still in beta, so for now, you must be logged in.
1578 uses - Created 2006-03-04 02:48:10 - Last used 2025-11-02 15:11:20 - Nominate - Description - http://www.newsvine.com/%s

gmv
Search Google Movies (which includes such things as showtimes), without "movies" in the search term (like the "movies" command. To find out about the movie The Life of Brian: Example: gmv life of brian
136 uses - Created 2006-03-04 00:54:25 - Last used 2025-06-30 04:35:45 - Nominate - Description - http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&oi=showtimes&near=%s&q=movie:+%s

bff
English to French Babelfish translation! Not Best Friends Forever!
50 uses - Created 2006-03-04 00:02:51 - Last used 2022-11-15 02:40:26 - Nominate - Description - http://babelfish.altavista.com/tr?lp=${lang=en_fr}&trtext=%s

ebayat
Search www.ebay.at.
554 uses - Created 2006-03-03 22:39:07 - Last used 2018-10-05 04:02:31 - Nominate - Description - http://search.ebay.at/search/search.dll?cgiurl=http%3A%2F%2Fcgi.ebay.at%2Fws%2F&fkr=1&from=R8&satitle=%s&category0=

similar (Golden Egg)
NAME similar -- find YubNub commands similar to a given command or a given URL. SYNOPSIS similar [URL or yubnub command] This command uses Eliazar's extractDomainName command to get the domain name for the input YubNub command or URL. It then does a YubNub "ls" command on that domain name to see if there are commands already created for that domain. This is useful for checking if there is a command already created for a website you want to search, or checking to see other commands similar to a …
1009 uses - Created 2006-03-03 21:40:09 - Last used 2024-01-14 19:07:51 - Description - ls {extractDomainName {url[no url encoding] %s}}[no url encoding]

flickrscout
flickrscout -- use flagrantdisregard's Scout to find the most interesting photos of a Flickr user, as ranked by http://flickr.com/explore . USAGE flickrscout [optional Flickr username] If a username is entered, it will search for photos for that user. If no username is entered, it will take you to the main Scout page. b.a.
31 uses - Created 2006-03-03 19:12:08 - Last used 2016-08-04 00:58:11 - Nominate - Description - http://flagrantdisregard.com/flickr/scout.php{ifnotempty %s -then ?username=%s&sort=date&year=0}

tquote
Random quote by a famous person
45 uses - Created 2006-03-03 04:20:24 - Last used 2020-09-17 07:22:49 - Nominate - Description - http://www.timelessquotes.com/add.php

writely
NAME writely -- search your documents at writely.com SYNOPSIS writely [optional search term] EXAMPLES writely (this will take you to the main page) writely yubnub (this will search all your writely.com documents for the term yubnub. must be logged in to use) AUTHOR chicagosage b.a.
144 uses - Created 2006-03-03 02:08:44 - Last used 2013-12-04 07:01:00 - Nominate - Description - http://www.writely.com/{ifnotempty %s -then BasePage.aspx?searchString=%s&x=0&y=0&action=search}[no url encoding]

gpb
Searches with Google's Phonebook search. More information can be found here: http://www.google.com/features.html
206 uses - Created 2006-03-03 01:31:49 - Last used 2025-12-12 08:25:12 - Nominate - Description - http://www.google.com/search?q=%s&hl=en&lr=&pb=f&pb=f

msdom
Microsoft Document Object Model for HTML. Usage: msdom type:[objects, properties, methods, collections, events] name:[alert, button, input, etc...] Example: msdom objects button
19 uses - Created 2006-03-02 22:03:01 - Last used 2007-06-06 13:56:29 - Nominate - Description - http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/workshop/author/dhtml/reference/{% 1 %s}/{% 2 %s}.asp[no url encoding]

an2fr
Use Google Translation tools to translate English to French
15 uses - Created 2006-03-02 21:35:29 - Last used 2008-04-30 09:50:25 - Nominate - Description - https://translate.google.com/translate_t?langpair=en|fr&text=%s

fr2an
Use google translation to translate french in english.
10 uses - Created 2006-03-02 21:34:13 - Last used 2008-04-15 06:56:48 - Nominate - Description - https://translate.google.com/translate_t?langpair=fr|en&text=%s

nys
Look up an address in Google Maps, also showing NYC subway/Path lines. Pretty useful. Courtesy of onnyturf.com
328 uses - Created 2006-03-02 19:31:37 - Last used 2024-09-04 21:32:41 - Nominate - Description - http://www.onnyturf.com/subwaymap.php?Address=%s

lastminute

146 uses - Created 2006-03-02 17:18:02 - Last used 2022-03-31 02:06:47 - Nominate - Description - http://www.lastminutetravel.co.il/hebrew/PageDefault.aspx

inter
site lycée lumière
187 uses - Created 2006-03-02 15:56:02 - Last used 2024-06-12 03:52:12 - Nominate - Description - http://catice.ac-besancon.fr/lycee_lumiere/index.htm

moose
Displays the main http://www.jedimoose.org website (with no parameters) or searches the site when paramaters are given.
93 uses - Created 2006-03-02 15:53:46 - Last used 2024-04-05 13:32:46 - Nominate - Description - http://www.jedimoose.org{ifThen -value1 %s -value2 -test NOTEQUAL -then /index.php?s=%s}

intra
intranet lycée lumière
88 uses - Created 2006-03-02 15:43:04 - Last used 2025-08-20 03:52:25 - Nominate - Description - http://www.lumiere.edu/

aca
site académique sciences physiques BESANCON
32 uses - Created 2006-03-02 15:41:09 - Last used 2021-02-07 15:29:43 - Nominate - Description - http://artic.ac-besancon.fr/Sciences_Physiques/

ixt
Search iXtractor, a Fuskar which extracts images from webpages. To search for links from photobucket, type ix photobucket. Use caution, since a large search might yield tons of links and slow down your browser. To view pictures from banned sights, use the Firefox webbrowser and: 1) Open the URL about:config. 2) Scroll down to network.http.sendRefererHeader. 3) Set value to 0.
224 uses - Created 2006-03-02 10:14:38 - Last used 2020-06-25 07:51:43 - Nominate - Description - http://www.ixtractor.com/keyword/%s

lupb
(L)aunchpad (U)buntu (P)ackage (B)ugs: search launchpad.net for bugs in a given package of the ubuntu distribution lupb gdm -> ubuntu's gdm package bug list
63 uses - Created 2006-03-02 09:35:27 - Last used 2010-01-04 23:49:40 - Nominate - Description - https://launchpad.net/distros/ubuntu/+source/%s/+bugs

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