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".

timer (Golden Egg)
An online break reminder. Basically it will bug you to take a break every 30 minutes (you can configure the time interval). If you're not ready to take a break yet, you can snooze for 5 minutes (again, you can configure this time interval), after which it will bug you again. Go away, rest your eyes, and when you come back, hit the big Restart button -- this will reset the clock back to 30 minutes. Example: timer 45
2753 uses - Created 2005-07-24 03:51:18 - Last used 2025-10-19 12:29:07 - Description - http://jonathanaquino.com/timer/?minutesBetweenNotifications=%s

bcmd
Simply returns Jeremy picks of best commands.
24 uses - Created 2005-07-24 00:04:20 - Last used 2007-03-17 21:17:25 - Nominate - Description - http://yubnub.org/documentation/jeremys_picks

fbinary
NAME fbinary - Convert a message from binary. SYNOPSIS fbinary <binary> EXAMPLE fbinary 01101000 01101001 fbinary converts a message from binary to regular ASCII using the snarkles.net binary translator. AUTHOR Tommy B. <tommy04@gmail.com> with help from Jonathan Aquino <jonathan.aquino@gmail.com>
16 uses - Created 2005-07-23 23:35:00 - Last used 2012-06-29 15:50:00 - Nominate - Description - http://snarkles.net/scripts/binary/binary.php?text=%s&convert=bin2txt&submit=Convert

tbinary
NAME tbinary - Convert a message to binary. SYNOPSIS tbinary <message> EXAMPLE tbinary Hello World! tbinary converts a message into binary using the snarkles.net binary translator. AUTHOR Tommy B. <tommy04@gmail.com> with help from Jonathan Aquino <jonathan.aquino@gmail.com>
11 uses - Created 2005-07-23 23:33:09 - Last used 2009-06-22 00:03:07 - Nominate - Description - http://snarkles.net/scripts/binary/binary.php?text=%s&convert=txt2bin&submit=Convert

sbux
The Starbucks Website. Get your coffee here
23 uses - Created 2005-07-23 23:28:54 - Last used 2017-02-19 08:36:40 - Nominate - Description - http://www.starbucks.com

rpa
SYNOPSIS rpa EXAMPLE rpa Displays a random Penny-Arcade comic. This command uses nested and sequential chained commands. Cool, huh? AUTHOR Richard Frankel
63 uses - Created 2005-07-23 22:29:01 - Last used 2022-01-01 17:59:17 - Nominate - Description - http://www.penny-arcade.com/view.php?date={rnd -min 1998 -max {date -format Y}}-{rnd -min 1 -max 12}-{rnd -min 1 -max 31}&res=l

urlencode
Runs PHP rawurlencode() on the argument. Example: urlencode http://foo.com Outputs: http%3A%2F%2Ffoo.com
235 uses - Created 2005-07-23 22:27:59 - Last used 2025-12-29 04:46:56 - Nominate - Description - http://jonathanaquino.com/urlencode.php?q=%s

convort
Convert FROM any unit TO any unit, usage: "convert 50 km to miles" does just what you expect. (also, "convert 50 km < miles" does the opposite, print the # of km) Many units and their abbreviations implemented Still "beta", suggestions appreciated. - misterc@convort.com
16 uses - Created 2005-07-23 22:17:55 - Last used 2017-01-30 21:47:24 - Nominate - Description - http://www.convort.com/?q=%s

sy

66 uses - Created 2005-07-23 22:10:19 - Last used 2025-01-02 00:42:18 - Nominate - Description - http://revision3.com/systm/

kvp

10 uses - Created 2005-07-23 22:05:59 - Last used 2005-11-09 07:27:52 - Nominate - Description - http://kpereira.typepad.com/

psub
Search the Blogosphere and the Web prospectively for articles not published yet
22 uses - Created 2005-07-23 21:46:02 - Last used 2006-01-24 10:55:34 - Nominate - Description - http://www.pubsub.com/

deccan
Deccan Chronicle
13 uses - Created 2005-07-23 21:37:34 - Last used 2012-07-19 19:56:01 - Nominate - Description - http://www.deccan.com

dicr
Dictionary with Wildcards, good for Rhymes
18 uses - Created 2005-07-23 17:44:05 - Last used 2011-07-30 01:00:39 - Nominate - Description - http://www.onelook.com/?w=%s&ls=a

phish
Use Google to fingerprint thousands of servers in a fraction of a second. Find only servers running the Linux operating system. Example: phinger linux Find only servers running M$Windows NT and potentially exploitable versions of Apache and PHP. Example: phinger Winnt Apache/1.3.24 PHP/4.2
175 uses - Created 2005-07-23 14:58:53 - Last used 2025-07-21 16:07:38 - Nominate - Description - http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&lr=&as_qdr=all&q=%s+%22phpinfo%28%29%3B%22+googlebot&btnG=Search

pingoat
To use pingoat.com to ping a list of blog xml-rpc servers
13 uses - Created 2005-07-23 09:03:12 - Last used 2011-04-21 09:02:06 - Nominate - Description - http://pingoat.com

gex
All the YubNub Golden-Egg commands, in XML format. Intended for people experimenting with commands that parse XML. The Golden Eggs are YubNub commands that people seem to find particularly useful and interesting. If you want to nominate a YubNub command for this list, email Jon about it. http://yubnub.org/kernel/golden_eggs This is a pretty big document. Save my bandwidth! -- don't use it too much. (Jon)
32 uses - Created 2005-07-23 07:42:44 - Last used 2019-05-18 05:51:51 - Nominate - Description - http://yubnub.org/all_golden_eggs.xml

nlh
NAME nlh - takes you to http://localhost:port SYNOPSIS nlh <port> EXAMPLE nlh 80 [webserver] Takes you to http://localhost:port AUTHOR Tommy B. <tommy04@gmail.com>
14 uses - Created 2005-07-22 22:45:18 - Last used 2010-03-23 22:57:32 - Nominate - Description - http://localhost:%s

lh
Used to go to your locally running web server. When developing rails apps, you may run mainly on port 3000. The path, however, may change more frequently. If you have an "admin" section of your rails app and run on port 3000, your command might look like the following: lh -a admin (note: this will only work if you have a locally running web server)
2065 uses - Created 2005-07-22 22:26:52 - Last used 2023-02-10 10:12:53 - Nominate - Description - http://localhost:${o=3000}/${a}[no url encoding]

osx
Searches the Mac Google portal. Example: osx irc client ========== [Ed. note: Old implementation: http://www.osxcode.com/index.php?s=%s Search the OS X Code (r,s) site, the Mac blog about innovation, people, the applications they write and their motivations.
1805 uses - Created 2005-07-22 20:58:21 - Last used 2026-06-05 23:21:56 - Nominate - Description - http://www.google.com/search?q=%s&btnmeta%3Dsearch%3Dmac=Search+Mac+Sites

textures
A site to find tileable textures
16 uses - Created 2005-07-22 18:40:04 - Last used 2024-10-22 05:34:14 - Nominate - Description - http://www.grsites.com/textures/

foafspace
FoaFSpace is a search engine that indexes the Semantic Web of FoaF documents that people publish on the net or are automatically published by sites such as LiveJournal, TypePad, and Ecademy.
11 uses - Created 2005-07-22 17:41:29 - Last used 2009-02-28 01:01:46 - Nominate - Description - http://www.foafspace.com/search?query=%s

gnt
Google News "Text" - text version. Can search for a subject or leave blank.
41 uses - Created 2005-07-22 16:54:58 - Last used 2018-11-25 07:25:55 - Nominate - Description - http://news.google.com/news?hl=en&ned=tus&q=%s&btnG=Search+News

scrape2

551 uses - Created 2005-07-22 16:38:55 - Last used 2023-11-10 23:48:14 - Nominate - Description - http://efridge.net/yubnub/parse.php?ynp_tokens=${tokens}&ynp_dirs=${dirs}&yndesturl=${url}&ynp_debug=${debug=0}&ynp_http=${method=get}&ynp_scrape=${textonly=1}[no url encoding]

d6
Rolls a d6, usefull in RPG's. Based of rand by Richard Frankel
101 uses - Created 2005-07-22 16:16:21 - Last used 2021-02-12 20:28:06 - Nominate - Description - http://jonathanaquino.com/random.php?num=1&min=1&max=6&col=1

gmd (Golden Egg)
Search Greasemonkeyed.com, the repository of Greasemonkey scripts. Usage: gmd [search term] b.a.
2503 uses - Created 2005-07-22 15:32:30 - Last used 2025-10-27 04:45:11 - Description - http://userscripts.org/scripts/search?q=%s&commit=Search

jmovie
NAME jmovie - search for DVDs or videos at Amazon.co.jp based on an English search string SYNOPSIS jmovie SEARCH_STRING Mandatory arguments: SEARCH_STRING A movie title, actor name, etc. EXAMPLE 1. jmovie amadeus 2. jmovie robert de niro AUTHOR Sean O'Hagan
20 uses - Created 2005-07-22 09:38:37 - Last used 2009-03-16 23:18:36 - Nominate - Description - http://efridge.net/yubnub/get2post.php?yndesturl=http://www.amazon.co.jp/exec/obidos/search-handle-form/250-8053059-4376259&page=1&field-keywords=%s&url=index=video-jp

yi
Yahoo Image Search yi Danica Patrick
1262 uses - Created 2005-07-22 07:44:08 - Last used 2025-09-11 15:10:26 - Nominate - Description - http://images.search.yahoo.com/search/images?ei=UTF-8&fr=sfp&p=%s

htmltitle
NAME htmltitle - scrapes the title from a web page SYNOPSIS htmltitle URL Mandatory arguments: URL The URL of a web page EXAMPLE 1. htmltitle http://www.yubnub.org 2. htmltitle www.wikipedia.org AUTHOR Sean O'Hagan
78 uses - Created 2005-07-22 06:55:16 - Last used 2009-08-02 12:36:40 - Nominate - Description - scrape -tokens <title+</title>+> -dirs 0 0 1 -url %s

domains

30 uses - Created 2005-07-22 05:27:32 - Last used 2014-05-29 05:03:27 - Nominate - Description - http://www.hostingassociates.com

texas

87 uses - Created 2005-07-22 05:22:18 - Last used 2021-05-01 21:22:44 - Nominate - Description - http://www.cad.org

houston

41 uses - Created 2005-07-22 05:22:07 - Last used 2019-06-28 22:28:15 - Nominate - Description - http://www.cad.org

dallas

56 uses - Created 2005-07-22 05:21:49 - Last used 2021-12-08 14:00:48 - Nominate - Description - http://www.cad.org

history

437 uses - Created 2005-07-22 05:20:36 - Last used 2026-05-01 12:05:20 - Nominate - Description - http://www.historybooks.us

splitv (Golden Egg)
NAME splitv - displays several webpages on a single screen, arranged vertically SYNOPSIS splitv [URL] [URL] [URL] ... EXAMPLE splitv http://google.com http://yahoo.com http://answers.com splitv {url g porsche} {url y porsche} {url a porsche} AUTHOR Jonathan Aquino <jonathan.aquino@gmail.com>
21308 uses - Created 2005-07-22 03:49:54 - Last used 2026-04-21 00:33:40 - Description - http://yubnub.org/example/split?type=v&urls=%s

splith (Golden Egg)
NAME splith - displays several webpages on a single screen, arranged horizontally SYNOPSIS splith [URL] [URL] [URL] ... EXAMPLE splith http://google.com http://yahoo.com http://answers.com splith {url g porsche} {url y porsche} {url a porsche} AUTHOR Jonathan Aquino <jonathan.aquino@gmail.com>
4324 uses - Created 2005-07-22 03:48:33 - Last used 2025-09-27 00:40:10 - Description - http://yubnub.org/example/split?type=h&urls=%s

split (Golden Egg)
NAME split - displays several webpages on a single screen SYNOPSIS split [URL] [URL] [URL] ... EXAMPLE split http://google.com http://yahoo.com http://answers.com split {url g porsche} {url y porsche} {url a porsche} AUTHOR Jonathan Aquino <jonathan.aquino@gmail.com>
285978 uses - Created 2005-07-22 03:45:37 - Last used 2026-04-25 23:42:54 - Description - http://yubnub.org/example/split?type=t&urls=%s

scrape (Golden Egg)
NAME scrape - display a snippet of text parsed from a web page. SYNOPSIS scrape -tokens TOKENS -dirs DIRECTIONS -url URL [options] Mandatory arguments: -tokens <token_list_string> A list of tokens (delimited by spaces) which the user has determined to be sufficient to consistently point the parser to the exact location of the required data. For example -tokens <title> </title> would return all characters between these two HTML tags. -dirs <direction_list_string> A list of directions associated …
145875 uses - Created 2005-07-22 03:42:49 - Last used 2026-04-30 10:22:08 - Description - http://efridge.net/yubnub/parse.php?ynp_tokens=${tokens}&ynp_dirs=${dirs}&yndesturl=${url}&ynp_debug=${debug=0}&ynp_http=${method=get}&ynp_scrape=${textonly=1}

cowboys

360 uses - Created 2005-07-22 02:23:54 - Last used 2017-12-11 09:01:47 - Nominate - Description - http://www.dallascowboys.com

li
Description: Search in LinkedIn. Example: li linus torvalds ---------- Old implementation; https://www.linkedin.com/search?search=%20&reset=%20&keywords=%s
12617 uses - Created 2005-07-22 01:42:06 - Last used 2026-06-12 13:05:30 - Nominate - Description - https://www.linkedin.com/search/results/all/?keywords=%s

zi
ZoomInfo People Search zi Steve Lee
698 uses - Created 2005-07-22 01:06:20 - Last used 2026-05-18 20:37:27 - Nominate - Description - http://networking2.zoominfo.com/PeopleSearch/PersonQuery.asp?searchParameters=%s&buttonFind.x=0&buttonFind.y=0&pc=&SearchBy=name&SearchType=simple&nlb=7%2F21%2F2005+9%3A03%3A11+PM

byd
Yahoo! Backyard People Search byd Steve Lee
164 uses - Created 2005-07-22 00:55:27 - Last used 2026-04-05 01:13:15 - Nominate - Description - http://backyard.yahoo.com/tools/g/employee/search?search_type=1&type=a&format=s&name=%s

yps
Yahoo People Search. Example: yps -first steve -last lee -city seattle -state wa
109 uses - Created 2005-07-22 00:46:58 - Last used 2021-02-08 07:57:03 - Nominate - Description - http://phone.people.yahoo.com/py/psPhoneSearch.py?srch=bas&D=1&FirstName=${first=}&LastName=${last=}&City=${city=}&State=${state=}&Phone=&Search=Phone+and+Address+Search

beerpal
BeerPal.com search of beers and brewers.
22 uses - Created 2005-07-21 23:50:58 - Last used 2007-10-26 23:44:08 - Nominate - Description - http://www.beerpal.com/search.asp?lookin=all&query=%s&x=0&y=0

crackspider
cracks
19 uses - Created 2005-07-21 22:40:38 - Last used 2010-08-18 15:36:32 - Nominate - Description - http://crackspider.net

..-old

25 uses - Created 2005-07-21 22:08:30 - Last used 2012-09-12 14:35:25 - Nominate - Description - http://www.2wire.com

obbd
Search the Oxford Bottled Beer Database.
17 uses - Created 2005-07-21 21:56:53 - Last used 2011-05-26 05:20:41 - Nominate - Description - http://www.bottledbeer.co.uk/submit.asp?search=%s

chord
Find a chord for a stringed instrument. You can use the following switches: - instrument = [guitar|ukulele|mandolin|tenor-banjo|plectrum-banjo|five-stringed|bouzouki|ukulele|lute] - tuning = [standard|... another applicable tuning for the instrument] E.g. To find a guitar chord in standard tuning: chord Em7 To find another chord in drop_d tuning: chord D -tuning drop_d To find an ukulele chord: chord Fmaj7 -instrument ukulele Chords are located at http://chordlist.brian-schroeder.de/
253 uses - Created 2005-07-21 20:35:23 - Last used 2024-07-01 14:54:26 - Nominate - Description - http://chordlist.brian-amberg.de/en/${instrument=guitar}/${tuning=standard}/%s/

vzw

43 uses - Created 2005-07-21 19:36:10 - Last used 2017-05-15 14:25:03 - Nominate - Description - http://www.verizonwireless.com

pulse
Check Blogpulse profile for a blog. Usage: pulse [blog url] b.a.
222 uses - Created 2005-07-21 19:34:00 - Last used 2026-01-05 04:02:01 - Nominate - Description - http://www.blogpulse.com/profile?type=overview&url=%s[no url encoding]

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