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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".

pichunt
porn
319 uses - Created 2005-06-25 04:05:28 - Last used 2023-12-18 11:50:50 - Nominate - Description - http://www.pichunter.com

nfs
Nearlyfreespeech.net hosting
184 uses - Created 2005-06-25 02:56:23 - Last used 2020-07-05 14:12:40 - Nominate - Description - http://www.nearlyfreespeech.net

FB
facebook search for keyword or shortcut to facebook main page (if no keyword given) searches Names, Profiles, Groups, Events in All Networks for keyword Examples: fbk john doe alaska (goes to http://www.facebook.com/s.php?q=john+doe+alaska) fbk (goes to http://www.facebook.com)
189678 uses - Created 2005-06-25 02:53:32 - Last used 2026-01-16 09:25:11 - Nominate - Description - http://www.facebook.com{ifThen -value1 %s -value2 -test NOTEQUAL -then /s.php?q=%s}

hendonmob
Search The Hendon Mob database of poker players using Google's I'm Feeling Lucky. Example: hendonmob brunson
161 uses - Created 2005-06-25 02:30:43 - Last used 2010-02-28 00:23:15 - Nominate - Description - http://www.google.com/search?btnI=I'm+Feeling+Lucky&q=site:thehendonmob.com+%s

ypro
To go to a person's Yahoo! user profile. Example: ypro webbug2000
39 uses - Created 2005-06-25 02:22:39 - Last used 2009-02-20 14:46:55 - Nominate - Description - http://profiles.yahoo.com/%s

omg
search online forums and bulletin boards
169 uses - Created 2005-06-25 02:14:42 - Last used 2025-07-04 07:04:04 - Nominate - Description - http://www.omgili.com/omgili.search?q=%s&x=0&y=0

mpaa
To find the MPAA rating for a film Example: mpaa yentl
52 uses - Created 2005-06-25 02:11:25 - Last used 2012-01-19 02:00:55 - Nominate - Description - http://www.io.com/~jsm/nph-ap.cgi/http://www.filmratings.com/content.asp?TITLE=%s&RATING=%25

luck
Google's I'm feeling lucky search.
888 uses - Created 2005-06-24 23:45:12 - Last used 2025-02-10 22:52:25 - Nominate - Description - http://www.google.com/search?biw=1020&hl=en&q=%s&btnI=I%27m+Feeling+Lucky

gimage
Google image search
7365 uses - Created 2005-06-24 23:31:38 - Last used 2024-02-07 23:41:09 - Nominate - Description - http://images.google.com/images?q=%s&hl=en

stalker

28 uses - Created 2005-06-24 23:09:07 - Last used 2023-07-17 02:50:19 - Nominate - Description - http://www.xanga.com/putoutmyfire

mov
Movie listings at local regal theatres by zipcode. Listings through Fandango.
168 uses - Created 2005-06-24 22:28:41 - Last used 2023-08-03 03:32:08 - Nominate - Description - http://www.fandango.com/TheaterListings.aspx?location=%s&source=cityzipsearch

qw
Quick weather forecast by zip code using Weather Underground.com a very infomation intensive weather website.
359 uses - Created 2005-06-24 22:25:12 - Last used 2025-08-06 13:51:57 - Nominate - Description - http://www.wunderground.com/cgi-bin/findweather/getForecast?query=%s

ytv
Search tv.yahoo.com for tv shows.
153 uses - Created 2005-06-24 21:35:24 - Last used 2025-05-30 17:08:45 - Nominate - Description - http://search.tv.yahoo.com/tvtitlesearch?p=%2b%s

install

546 uses - Created 2005-06-24 21:13:49 - Last used 2021-01-13 10:46:43 - Nominate - Description - http://www.kuhnelectronics.com

plotip
Gets info on an IP address, including location.
118 uses - Created 2005-06-24 20:52:52 - Last used 2012-10-01 15:47:38 - Nominate - Description - http://plotip.com/index.php?ip=%s&do_locate=LOCATE

gspot
Search GameSpot for, um, games. Example: gspot bard's tale
3271 uses - Created 2005-06-24 20:48:39 - Last used 2013-11-17 13:05:50 - Nominate - Description - http://www.gamespot.com/pages/search/index.php?type=11&stype=all&qs=%s&x=0&y=0.

gPhoto
finds good licensable images
15 uses - Created 2005-06-24 20:41:43 - Last used 2024-01-03 04:09:24 - Nominate - Description - http://stockphotofinder.com/search/index.php?makePage=1&search_str=%2&submit1=new+search&rf=rf&rm=rm&ed=ed

spf
finds good licensable images
80 uses - Created 2005-06-24 20:39:21 - Last used 2025-04-04 11:34:14 - Nominate - Description - http://stockphotofinder.com/search/find_new.php?search_str=%s

aotb
This is Attack of the Show's blog.
12 uses - Created 2005-06-24 20:30:21 - Last used 2005-08-27 19:32:34 - Nominate - Description - http://www.attackoftheblog.com/

pbase
searches pbase.com
11 uses - Created 2005-06-24 20:03:17 - Last used 2015-12-07 01:34:38 - Nominate - Description - http://www.pbase.com

msns
MSN Search
104 uses - Created 2005-06-24 19:32:36 - Last used 2021-11-11 04:17:50 - Nominate - Description - http://search.msn.com/results.aspx?q=%s

trip
Search of Tripadvisor.com
2090 uses - Created 2005-06-24 18:54:06 - Last used 2025-02-24 11:19:54 - Nominate - Description - http://www.tripadvisor.com/Search?q=%s

patent
Quick search of the US Patent DB
557 uses - Created 2005-06-24 18:49:53 - Last used 2025-08-26 06:22:37 - Nominate - Description - http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO2&Sect2=HITOFF&u=%2Fnetahtml%2Fsearch-adv.htm&r=0&p=1&f=S&l=50&Query=%s&d=ptxt

set
Search Google Sets: Example: set -1 bush -2 regan -3 clinton will return more presidents
1638 uses - Created 2005-06-24 18:41:18 - Last used 2025-01-08 02:51:06 - Nominate - Description - http://labs.google.com/sets?hl=en&q1=${1}&q2=${2}&q3=${3}&btn=Large+Set

calc
calculate
1498 uses - Created 2005-06-24 18:30:35 - Last used 2026-01-10 00:13:52 - Nominate - Description - http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&lr=&q=%s

aafp
Searches the American Academy of Family Physcians site for journal articles in PDF format. (Much quicker than using their site search.)
25 uses - Created 2005-06-24 18:17:25 - Last used 2024-08-11 15:27:57 - Nominate - Description - http://www.google.com/search?biw=988&hl=en&q=filetype%3Apdf+site%3Aaafp.org+%s

babylon
site for computer help in babylon, NY, USA
70 uses - Created 2005-06-24 18:15:47 - Last used 2022-09-08 22:07:22 - Nominate - Description - http://www.mikewaters.net

ysec
Yahoo Finance's list of SEC filings for that ticker symbol.
48 uses - Created 2005-06-24 17:43:36 - Last used 2010-04-29 15:40:01 - Nominate - Description - http://finance.yahoo.com/q/sec?s=%s

army
AA Gaming Lader
28 uses - Created 2005-06-24 17:41:32 - Last used 2018-10-11 19:15:39 - Nominate - Description - http://www.aaladder.com

sfp
Jump to a sourceforge project if you know their subdomain. For example, 'sfp gaim' takes you to Gaim's homepage, 'sfp filezilla' takes you to Filezilla's, and so on.
200 uses - Created 2005-06-24 17:38:05 - Last used 2015-02-15 08:27:06 - Nominate - Description - http://%s.sourceforge.net/

1look
OneLook.com Dictionary Search OneLook.com returns dictionary lookup results from numerous online dictionaries. Example: 1look example This command is probably highly extensible using the many features of OneLook, but I have yet to explore those.
11 uses - Created 2005-06-24 17:26:26 - Last used 2009-02-23 05:40:49 - Nominate - Description - http://onelook.com/?w=%s&ls=a

clock
Naval Observatory Master Clock
129 uses - Created 2005-06-24 17:23:04 - Last used 2024-11-08 17:37:05 - Nominate - Description - http://tycho.usno.navy.mil/cgi-bin/timer.pl

mu
Search Mozilla Update Finds extensions and themes for Mozilla products, including Firefox and Thunderbird. Syntax: mu LiveLines
485 uses - Created 2005-06-24 16:54:38 - Last used 2025-08-03 05:45:54 - Nominate - Description - https://addons.mozilla.org/quicksearch.php?q=%s

pydoc
Search the pydoc.org website for the relevant python command. Specify the version using -v. eg: pydoc -v 2.4.1 open
329 uses - Created 2005-06-24 16:37:26 - Last used 2023-04-14 12:42:47 - Nominate - Description - http://pydoc.org/-{v}/search.cgi?key=%s

grel
finds related sites provide domain like google.com or oracle.com nice start to browse the web
16 uses - Created 2005-06-24 16:15:46 - Last used 2014-06-26 12:46:29 - Nominate - Description - http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=related%3A%s

coral (Golden Egg)
Enter a URL and this command will load it using the Coral Content Distributed Network (http://coralcdn.org/ ). Coral is peer-to-peer content distribution network, comprised of a world-wide network of web proxies and nameservers. This will only work after the root domain (e.g. urls ending in .com, .edu, etc.) but not subdirectories. And don't include the trailing slash if any (e.g. "coral www.vischeck.com", not "coral www.vischeck.com/") Usage: coral [URL] Example: coral www.vischeck.com
555 uses - Created 2005-06-24 15:41:09 - Last used 2025-06-06 13:52:48 - Description - http://%s.nyud.net:8090

spinuzzi
Search Clay Spinuzzi's website, which primarily contains reviews of academic books. Example: spinuzzi dialogic imagination
18 uses - Created 2005-06-24 14:58:30 - Last used 2007-08-22 10:11:53 - Nominate - Description - http://babbage2.cwrl.utexas.edu/~spinuzzi/spinuzzi_drupal/?q=search&keys=%s

passgen
Create a random yet somewhat pronounceable password Example: passgen Uses the Linuxbuilt password generator http://www.linuxbuilt.com
78 uses - Created 2005-06-24 14:28:19 - Last used 2018-10-06 03:17:21 - Nominate - Description - http://www.linuxbuilt.com/password-generator.php

manpage
Displays the man page for a queried item from FreeBSD.org using their default settings. Adjustments to the scope and release version can be adjusted after the result is shown. Example: man cp
109 uses - Created 2005-06-24 14:28:13 - Last used 2023-08-31 15:37:33 - Nominate - Description - http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=%s

ymovie
To get yahoo review
17 uses - Created 2005-06-24 14:24:46 - Last used 2008-08-29 17:56:03 - Nominate - Description - http://movies.yahoo.com/mv/search?p=%s

vienna

67 uses - Created 2005-06-24 14:00:03 - Last used 2025-03-14 13:28:33 - Nominate - Description - http://viennateng.com

request

356 uses - Created 2005-06-24 13:56:15 - Last used 2025-08-12 07:23:34 - Nominate - Description - http://demo.ifinch.com/Finch/SRM/requestDetails?REQ_ID=%s

rkw
search korean ruby user group wiki
18 uses - Created 2005-06-24 12:57:14 - Last used 2009-12-21 19:27:53 - Nominate - Description - http://wiki.rubykr.org/instiki/search?query=%s

ypau
Search Australian (au) Yellow Pages Usage: ypau business_type_goes_here
33 uses - Created 2005-06-24 12:24:48 - Last used 2017-08-09 18:52:42 - Nominate - Description - http://www.yellowpages.com.au/search/postSearchEntry.do?businessType=%s&businessName=&locationClue=&serviceArea=true

river
Searches for whitewater rivers on AmericanWhitewater.org, in any state in the United States.
326 uses - Created 2005-06-24 11:39:31 - Last used 2025-09-28 14:25:26 - Nominate - Description - http://www.americanwhitewater.org/search/?rivername=%s&state=any&level=any&atleast=I&atmost=V%2B&sr=River+Search

qpostal (Golden Egg)
Canada Postal Code (Quick) Search. To find a postal code, type in an address in the following way. Example: qpostal -n 123 -s main -t street -c winnipeg -p MB Switches: -n the street number -s the street name -t the street type (this is optional; also "street" or "st" works) -c the town or city -p the province (AB, BC, MB, NB, NL, NS, NT, NU, ON, PE, QC, SK, YT)
155 uses - Created 2005-06-24 11:36:36 - Last used 2024-04-02 20:11:15 - Description - http://www.canadapost.ca/common/tools/pcl/bin/cp_search_response-e.asp?street_number=${n}&street_name=${s}&street_type=${t}&city=${c}&prov=${p}[post]

kdic
english to korea, korea to english dictionary
24 uses - Created 2005-06-24 11:27:29 - Last used 2010-10-14 21:25:41 - Nominate - Description - http://engdic.empas.com/dicsearch/show.tsp/?z=C&q=%s

apoddate (Golden Egg)
Astronomy Picture of the Day find by date Enter the date to search for as yymmdd, as far back as 950616 (June 16th, 1995) Example: To see the picture for June 5th, 2005 enter apoddate 050605
138 uses - Created 2005-06-24 11:27:24 - Last used 2023-03-29 05:00:14 - Description - http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap%s.html

apod
Astronomy Picture of the Day
472 uses - Created 2005-06-24 11:15:03 - Last used 2024-10-14 14:09:02 - Nominate - Description - http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/astropix.html

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