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".

sfartist
Display Songfight artist page for specified artist. Example: "sfartist octothorpe"
35 uses - Created 2005-06-17 13:38:11 - Last used 2008-05-03 19:25:42 - Nominate - Description - http://www.songfight.org/artistpage.php?key=%s&sortkey=date

linkstoall
Extension of linksto command which displays link results across most major search engines.
10 uses - Created 2005-06-17 13:06:24 - Last used 2010-06-20 15:12:45 - Nominate - Description - http://roxy.neutralize.com/ix2.php?returning=2&url=%s

thesaurus
Looks up a word in the Merriam-Webster online thesaurus. ---------- Old implementation: http://www.webster.com/cgi-bin/dictionary?book=Thesaurus&va=%s
5442 uses - Created 2005-06-17 13:05:03 - Last used 2026-01-12 00:31:41 - Nominate - Description - http://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/%s

webster
Looks up a word in the Merriam-Webster online dictionary.
2720 uses - Created 2005-06-17 13:03:55 - Last used 2025-06-29 19:18:23 - Nominate - Description - http://www.webster.com/cgi-bin/dictionary?book=Dictionary&va=%s

suki
Searches AnimeSuki for anime torrent files ^-^
959 uses - Created 2005-06-17 12:40:44 - Last used 2024-02-10 12:49:18 - Nominate - Description - http://www.animesuki.com/search.php?query=%s

hcl
List hardware specs (hardware compatibility list). Comes in handy when you want to check goodies before (preferably :-] )or after buying. A lot of HCL's aren't updated, this one is.
36 uses - Created 2005-06-17 12:29:06 - Last used 2025-07-15 02:50:19 - Nominate - Description - http://www.linuxquestions.org/hcl/

btor
Searches Bram Cohen's BitTorrent search engine for torrent files ^-^
77 uses - Created 2005-06-17 12:27:12 - Last used 2012-04-04 19:50:10 - Nominate - Description - http://search.bittorrent.com/search.jsp?query=%s

pbay
Searches The Pirate Bay for BitTorrent files. ^-^
21426 uses - Created 2005-06-17 12:20:10 - Last used 2023-04-27 06:17:22 - Nominate - Description - http://thepiratebay.org/search/%s/0/7/0[use %20 for spaces]

la
.
1441 uses - Created 2005-06-17 11:38:45 - Last used 2025-08-21 15:26:21 - Nominate - Description - http://www.laliste.de

lala
========== Old implementation: http://www.laliste.de
272 uses - Created 2005-06-17 11:37:55 - Last used 2023-12-15 06:42:18 - Nominate - Description - http://www.lala.com/#search/%s

ov
Shows the dutch ov-chipkaart website
31 uses - Created 2005-06-17 11:27:17 - Last used 2023-12-13 10:08:57 - Nominate - Description - http://www.ovchipkaart.nl

media

136 uses - Created 2005-06-17 10:52:54 - Last used 2024-09-02 22:05:02 - Nominate - Description - http://www.coraid.com.au

v
Search for law in Spain.
3211 uses - Created 2005-06-17 10:38:51 - Last used 2026-01-14 07:58:30 - Nominate - Description - http://premium.vlex.com/home/busqueda.asp?categoria=&universal=1&textolibre=%s&Submit=Buscar&condicion=and

pubmed
Search pubmed for the given search term Example: pubmed docking
10982 uses - Created 2005-06-17 10:28:27 - Last used 2026-01-14 12:32:41 - Nominate - Description - http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?holding=&db=PubMed&cmd=search&term=%s

nrukplan
Directs your browser to the National Rail UK website, specifically the "plan my journey" page.
40 uses - Created 2005-06-17 10:24:01 - Last used 2010-02-01 13:12:02 - Nominate - Description - http://www.nationalrail.co.uk/planmyjourney

gmapsuk
Searches Google Maps UK
5829 uses - Created 2005-06-17 09:37:24 - Last used 2021-01-07 11:18:03 - Nominate - Description - http://maps.google.co.uk/maps?sourceid=Mozilla-search&q=%s

guardian
Search the Guardian
1021 uses - Created 2005-06-17 09:15:17 - Last used 2025-08-15 16:07:37 - Nominate - Description - http://search.guardian.co.uk/search97cgi/s97networkr_cgi?QueryText=%s&Action=Search&Collection=archive_artifact&ResultTemplate=Archive_Artifact.hts&SortSpec=VdkPublicationDate+Desc

nins
Search Neither Indifferent Nor Sceptical
45 uses - Created 2005-06-17 08:57:18 - Last used 2017-03-01 08:50:26 - Nominate - Description - http://www.google.com/search?q=%s&ie=UTF-8&sitesearch=notindifferentnotsceptical.blogspot.com&x=0&y=0

hp
Neue Beiträge im Pappenforum zeigen
793 uses - Created 2005-06-17 08:41:34 - Last used 2025-02-26 17:05:48 - Nominate - Description - http://www.hoeflichepaparazzi.de/forum/search.php?do=getnew

alexis
Cache me if you can
49 uses - Created 2005-06-17 08:23:31 - Last used 2019-04-14 13:27:25 - Nominate - Description - http://www.metalogic.fi

guitarchord
Type a guitar chord like G7 Bsus4 and get a visual and audio playback.
54 uses - Created 2005-06-17 05:58:14 - Last used 2017-05-02 08:44:40 - Nominate - Description - http://www.8notes.com/guitar_chord_chart/%s.asp

wip
Wikipedia Go
222 uses - Created 2005-06-17 05:45:36 - Last used 2025-05-06 15:46:57 - Nominate - Description - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Search?search=%s&go=Go

scifi
a website devoted to reviews of science fiction shows.
24 uses - Created 2005-06-17 05:24:50 - Last used 2024-11-18 20:02:40 - Nominate - Description - http://www.scifi-world.net

ac
Search Absurdlycool.com freebies. Example: ac t-shirt ac sample
549 uses - Created 2005-06-17 04:10:17 - Last used 2025-07-23 13:58:51 - Nominate - Description - http://absurdlycool.com/search.cgi?test=%s&age=30

subject
Alibris Book Search: Find 50 million new & used books from 8000 rated bookstores with guarantee & cheap shipping. To find a book, just type the subject. Example: subject politics
40 uses - Created 2005-06-17 03:39:58 - Last used 2025-12-23 09:56:12 - Nominate - Description - http://www.alibris.com/search/search.cfm?sourceid=YubNub&wtopic=%s

life

291 uses - Created 2005-06-17 03:12:12 - Last used 2021-10-16 07:32:00 - Nominate - Description - http://rouge8.com

title
Alibris Book Search: Find 50 million new & used books from 8000 rated bookstores with guarantee & cheap shipping. To find a book, just type the title. Example: title harry potter
165 uses - Created 2005-06-17 03:01:56 - Last used 2024-12-25 06:02:55 - Nominate - Description - http://www.alibris.com/search/search.cfm?sourceid=YubNub&wtit=%s

author
Alibris Book Search: Find 50 million new & used books from 8000 rated bookstores with guarantee & cheap shipping. To find books, just type the author name. Example: author douglas adams
197 uses - Created 2005-06-17 02:56:40 - Last used 2024-06-12 14:34:52 - Nominate - Description - http://www.alibris.com/search/search.cfm?sourceid=YubNub&wauth=%s

alibris
Alibris Book Search: Find 50 million new & used books from 8000 rated bookstores with guarantee & cheap shipping. To find a book title, author, or subject, just type the string. Example: alibris harry potter
259 uses - Created 2005-06-17 02:51:34 - Last used 2024-08-20 14:59:38 - Nominate - Description - http://www.alibris.com/search/search.cfm?sourceid=YubNub&wquery=%s

juno
Juno Records. Search the online catalogue for a huge range of dance music vinyl and CDs. To search for an artist, title or label, just enter the name. Example: juno underworld
285 uses - Created 2005-06-17 02:37:22 - Last used 2025-06-18 22:13:40 - Nominate - Description - http://www.juno.co.uk/search.php?q=%s&x=12&y=8&precision=any&column=all

apnic
APNIC Whois Database Search. This will search for numerical Internet resources registered in the Asia Pacific region. To find the registration information for an IP address, just type the address. Example: apnic 192.0.2.22
364 uses - Created 2005-06-17 01:51:46 - Last used 2024-09-04 05:07:42 - Nominate - Description - http://www.apnic.net/apnic-bin/whois.pl?searchtext=%s

neo
A webste with a bunch of other people waiting to ight against you.
109 uses - Created 2005-06-17 01:24:45 - Last used 2023-10-06 03:42:53 - Nominate - Description - http://www.neopets.com

jim
Excellent Cincinnati band opening for Dave Matthews Band on first leg of '05 summer tour.
99 uses - Created 2005-06-17 00:48:32 - Last used 2021-01-05 21:19:53 - Nominate - Description - http://www.onlyeverything.com

ala (Golden Egg)
Search the A List Apart archives (XHTML, CSS, Design, etc.)
213 uses - Created 2005-06-17 00:26:39 - Last used 2025-08-30 03:37:29 - Description - http://search.atomz.com/search/?sp-q=%s&sp-a=sp1002d27b&sp-f=ISO-8859-1&sp-p=All&sp-k=All

morgue
Searches the excellant morguefile.com stock photo site.
54 uses - Created 2005-06-17 00:20:30 - Last used 2015-06-15 16:03:53 - Nominate - Description - http://www.morguefile.com/archive/index.php?search_log=true&termsBol=any&terms=%s

cms

142 uses - Created 2005-06-16 23:31:52 - Last used 2023-10-27 07:54:46 - Nominate - Description - http://cmstrends.blogspot.com

vl
awesome for everyone...
47 uses - Created 2005-06-16 23:30:32 - Last used 2024-04-01 22:45:03 - Nominate - Description - http://www.valhallalegends.com/

bj
Authorative Reference
65 uses - Created 2005-06-16 23:30:06 - Last used 2025-05-05 07:29:26 - Nominate - Description - http://www.clintonfoundation.org/

nyts
Search for New York Times Articles
87 uses - Created 2005-06-16 23:04:16 - Last used 2022-10-07 08:05:36 - Nominate - Description - http://query.nytimes.com/search/query?query=%s&date=past30days

jb
Search James Britt site
121 uses - Created 2005-06-16 22:59:19 - Last used 2025-10-26 21:42:13 - Nominate - Description - http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&as_sitesearch=www.jamesbritt.com&q=%s

grd
Use Google to search the ruby-doc.org site
100 uses - Created 2005-06-16 22:52:59 - Last used 2025-11-10 10:43:18 - Nominate - Description - http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&as_sitesearch=www.ruby-doc.org&q=%s

Comedy
A sucky band with too much spare time!!
42 uses - Created 2005-06-16 22:35:58 - Last used 2024-12-30 23:01:19 - Nominate - Description - http://myspace.com/somekindofband

pp

116 uses - Created 2005-06-16 22:28:45 - Last used 2024-07-11 16:50:52 - Nominate - Description - http://www.puzzlepirates.com

redune
Searches the official website of William Spaetzel
696 uses - Created 2005-06-16 22:27:59 - Last used 2022-12-26 14:41:56 - Nominate - Description - http://redune.com/search/node/%s

lat
Search Los Angeles Times. Syntax: lat <query>
87 uses - Created 2005-06-16 22:10:36 - Last used 2023-09-09 06:30:57 - Nominate - Description - http://www.latimes.com/search/dispatcher.front?Query=%s&target=article

docbook
Docbook is a cool xml language for writing articles/books. This search just goes to the page for a docbook element: it'll probably 404 on non-existant ones.
85 uses - Created 2005-06-16 22:05:56 - Last used 2022-01-02 08:51:28 - Nominate - Description - http://www.docbook.org/tdg/en/html/%s.html

freegames
kewl free games
24 uses - Created 2005-06-16 21:56:05 - Last used 2011-05-16 02:08:53 - Nominate - Description - http://gamesarcade.net

asin
Go to the detail page of an Amazon Item by using the Amazon Standard Identification Number (ASIN) Example: asin B0007UA6PW
173 uses - Created 2005-06-16 21:50:51 - Last used 2025-10-07 09:41:05 - Nominate - Description - http://www.amazon.com/o/asin/%s

sn
Search Snap.com. Syntax: sn <search term>
260 uses - Created 2005-06-16 21:49:07 - Last used 2025-09-09 09:20:06 - Nominate - Description - http://www.snap.com/search.php?query=%s

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