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".

slang (Golden Egg)
Check urban dictionary what this slang means.
4723 uses - Created 2005-06-09 13:27:32 - Last used 2025-10-06 12:00:03 - Description - http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=%s&r=f

ml.ar (Golden Egg)
SYNOPSIS ml.ar [keywords] EXAMPLE ml.ar camaras digitales Searches MercadoLibre.com.ar using the given keyword (e.g. product name)
6153 uses - Created 2005-06-09 13:16:09 - Last used 2025-12-15 06:05:09 - Description - http://www.mercadolibre.com.ar/jm/search?as_word=%s

pricewatch
Pricewatch search tool
248 uses - Created 2005-06-09 13:13:08 - Last used 2019-07-14 11:28:22 - Nominate - Description - http://castle.pricewatch.com/s/search.asp?s=%s..

gnews (Golden Egg)
search google news in batches of 100 and sorted by date
53604 uses - Created 2005-06-09 13:12:18 - Last used 2026-01-08 00:07:27 - Description - http://news.google.com/news?num=100&hl=en&lr=&tab=wn&ie=UTF-8&q=%s&scoring=d

wpda (Golden Egg)
Dansih wikipedia search
253 uses - Created 2005-06-09 12:52:25 - Last used 2018-03-30 08:42:47 - Description - http://da.wikipedia.org/wiki/%s

guj (Golden Egg)
Grupo de Usuarios Java's forum topic redirect
21 uses - Created 2005-06-09 12:32:23 - Last used 2016-01-30 23:39:01 - Description - http://www.guj.com.br/posts/list/%s.java

wpes (Golden Egg)
Spanish Wikipedia SYNOPSIS wpes [keywords] EXAMPLE wpes yubnub Searches es.wikipedia.org using the given keyword (e.g. article name, subject, etc.)
47390 uses - Created 2005-06-09 12:04:17 - Last used 2026-01-09 15:42:21 - Description - http://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Especial:Search?search=%s

linux-bash (Golden Egg)
Link to the page with a list of Linux Commands : For Reference
55 uses - Created 2005-06-09 06:11:15 - Last used 2021-04-22 21:17:23 - Description - http://www.ss64.com/bash/

dmoz (Golden Egg)
Searches the dmoz Open Directory
593 uses - Created 2005-06-09 04:27:58 - Last used 2020-10-16 11:08:57 - Description - http://search.dmoz.org/cgi-bin/search?search=%s

dict (Golden Egg)
Dictionary search at dict.com
23718 uses - Created 2005-06-09 04:26:44 - Last used 2025-10-07 10:12:05 - Description - http://www.dict.org/bin/Dict?Query=%s&Form=Dict1&Strategy=*&Database=*

jman (Golden Egg)
SYNOPSIS jman [keywords] EXAMPLE jman grep Searches JM Project using the given keyword
31 uses - Created 2005-06-09 04:20:45 - Last used 2011-01-18 07:42:34 - Description - http://www.google.co.jp/search?hl=ja&q=%s+site%3Awww.linux.or.jp&btnI=I%27m+Feeling+Lucky&lr=

csb (Golden Egg)
Searches The Collection ofComputer Science Bibliographies
25 uses - Created 2005-06-09 04:17:25 - Last used 2024-03-29 06:15:05 - Description - http://liinwww.ira.uka.de/searchbib/index?query=%s

1g (Golden Egg)
FirstGov search of Federal (U.S.) websites
70 uses - Created 2005-06-09 04:14:25 - Last used 2025-10-31 03:31:11 - Description - http://www.firstgov.gov/fgsearch/index.jsp?ms0=%26nbsp%3B&mt0=all&st=AS&rn=2&parsed=true&mw0=%s

cs (Golden Egg)
Searches CiteSeer, the Scientific Literature Digital Library
1654 uses - Created 2005-06-09 04:01:47 - Last used 2025-12-10 14:30:48 - Description - http://citeseer.ist.psu.edu/cis?q=%s

rx (Golden Egg)
Drug search at the British National Formulary
139 uses - Created 2005-06-09 03:58:13 - Last used 2024-02-27 20:19:26 - Description - http://bnf.org/bnf/bnf/current/search/text.htm?q=%s&n=50

bbc (Golden Egg)
A mashup of bbc and bbc+, it gives you the bbc homepage if you don't specify anything, and if you do, the following holds true: A better search of the BBC site. Synopsis: bbc++ topic [-tab news|sport|allbbc|www] In English: You can search bbc news just by typing bbc++ follwed by one or more words of the subject to search for. Examples: bbc++ tony blair bbc++ shuttle Discovery launch To search for sports news, other items at the BBC, or to search the web, add the -tab keyword, followed by one of…
8873 uses - Created 2005-06-09 03:56:42 - Last used 2025-11-12 14:16:08 - Description - {ifnotempty %s -then http://newssearch.bbc.co.uk/cgi-bin/search/results.pl?scope=newsukfs&q=%s&tab=${tab=news} -else http://news.bbc.co.uk}

bn (Golden Egg)
Barnes and Noble search
1350 uses - Created 2005-06-09 03:54:42 - Last used 2024-10-30 12:12:43 - Description - http://search.barnesandnoble.com/booksearch/results.asp?WRD=%s

album (Golden Egg)
Allmusic Album search
1209 uses - Created 2005-06-09 03:52:32 - Last used 2025-12-17 04:41:55 - Description - http://www.allmusic.com/search/album/%s

acm (Golden Egg)
Searches the Association for Computing Machinery digital library
585 uses - Created 2005-06-09 03:50:39 - Last used 2025-09-30 09:11:16 - Description - http://portal.acm.org/results.cfm?coll=portal&dl=ACM&query=%s

sxc (Golden Egg)
Searches stock.xchng [sxc.hu]. ========== Old implementation: http://sxc.hu/browse.phtml?f=search&txt=%s&w=1
2551 uses - Created 2005-06-09 03:18:32 - Last used 2022-03-16 12:59:13 - Description - http://www.sxc.hu/browse.phtml?f=search&txt=%s&w=1&x=0&y=0

cd
Searches CDBaby for whatever you're thinking about.
1314 uses - Created 2005-06-09 02:26:31 - Last used 2025-06-29 12:58:21 - Nominate - Description - http://cdbaby.com/found?allsearch=%s

txp (Golden Egg)
Search the Textpattern forum site via Google. Simple I know, but better than the search function on the forum.
49 uses - Created 2005-06-09 01:30:46 - Last used 2023-03-03 13:05:24 - Description - http://www.google.com/search?q=site:forum.textpattern.com+%s

wiki (Golden Egg)
Search for Wikipedia Articles.
393611 uses - Created 2005-06-09 00:19:06 - Last used 2026-01-09 19:32:25 - Description - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Search?search=%s&fulltext=Search

tagcentral (Golden Egg)
Performs a tagcentral query.
15 uses - Created 2005-06-08 23:13:37 - Last used 2023-03-03 13:10:01 - Description - http://tagcentral.net/?tag=%s&submit=Get+Tag

deb (Golden Egg)
Search For Debian Packages ---------- Old implementation: http://packages.debian.org/cgi-bin/search_packages.pl?version=all&subword=1&exact=&arch=any&releases=all&case=insensitive&keywords=%s&searchon=all
9227 uses - Created 2005-06-08 22:32:56 - Last used 2025-09-07 09:15:06 - Description - http://packages.debian.org/search?keywords=%s

debsearch (Golden Egg)
Officeal debian package search
54 uses - Created 2005-06-08 22:28:46 - Last used 2015-07-14 14:13:44 - Description - http://packages.debian.org/cgi-bin/search_packages.pl?version=all&subword=1&exact=&arch=any&releases=all&case=insensitive&keywords=%s&searchon=all

swik (Golden Egg)
Find Open Source Project on Swik.net
37 uses - Created 2005-06-08 22:26:46 - Last used 2023-03-03 13:05:40 - Description - http://swik.net/?fg=1&find=%s

roll (Golden Egg)
Roll dice, formatted like RPGs or wargames. Enter dice like you would see them in an RPG rule book. So, "3d6" means to roll 3 six-siders and total the result. Similarly, "1d20+5" means to roll one twenty-sider and add five to the result.
600 uses - Created 2005-06-08 22:02:50 - Last used 2025-04-15 10:33:07 - Description - http://invisiblecastle.com/rolldice.py?u=&r=1&a=Roll&d=%s

html2text (Golden Egg)
SYNOPSIS html2text [url] EXAMPLE html2text http://twoday.tuwien.ac.at/ferrari/ html2text is a Python script that convers a page of HTML into clean, easy-to-read plain ASCII. Better yet, that ASCII also happens to be valid Markdown (a text-to-HTML format).
313 uses - Created 2005-06-08 21:57:59 - Last used 2023-03-29 05:11:11 - Description - http://www.aaronsw.com/2002/html2text/?url=%s

qwantz (Golden Egg)
Searches the Daily Dinosaur Comics strip archive at www.qwantz.com for comics containing your string. Searches all frames; whole word only search is disabled, title search is enabled.
62 uses - Created 2005-06-08 21:51:05 - Last used 2014-04-17 07:49:52 - Description - http://www.qwantz.com/search/index.asp?search=%s&panel1=on&panel2=on&panel3=on&panel4=on&panel5=on&panel6=on&title=on

kod (Golden Egg)
Search for source code on the koders.com search engine. This searches all languages.
75 uses - Created 2005-06-08 21:11:38 - Last used 2021-07-03 08:42:25 - Description - http://www.koders.com/?s=%s

em (Golden Egg)
Search eMusic.com
3196 uses - Created 2005-06-08 20:54:31 - Last used 2025-12-15 12:42:17 - Description - http://www.emusic.com/search.html?mode=x&QT=%s&x=0&y=0

rotten (Golden Egg)
Search the Rotten Tomatoes movie review site (www.rottentomatoes.com). Search restricted to movies only.
14076 uses - Created 2005-06-08 20:44:54 - Last used 2026-01-07 19:20:01 - Description - http://www.rottentomatoes.com/search/?search=%s[use %20 for spaces]

descriptious (Golden Egg)
SYNOPSIS descriptious EXAMPLE descriptious A live list of what's popular on the web, based on number of links in del.icio.us.
59 uses - Created 2005-06-08 20:18:44 - Last used 2012-07-12 13:15:34 - Description - http://jonathanaquino.com/descriptious/descriptious-populicious-cheyne.html

buckeroo
Create a new command
11 uses - Created 2005-06-08 19:15:11 - Last used 2009-08-13 15:31:45 - Nominate - Description - http://yubnub.org/command/new?name=%s

geo (Golden Egg)
NAME geo - Find geotagged Flickr photos and GPS tracks on a Google Map at maps.yuan.cc SYNOPSIS geo [ADDRESS] -z [OPTIONAL: ZOOM LEVEL 1-19] -service [OPTIONAL: SERVICE] EXAMPLES geo 450 s dearborn, chicago, il (returns a map of 450 s. dearborn, chicago, il, with Flickr photos) geo 60607 -z 15 (returns a map of Flickr photos in zip code 60607, zoomed to level 15) geo taipei, taiwan -service gps (returns a map of GPS tracks in Taipei) geo (returns a world map of Flickr photos) Yuan.CC Maps is a …
687 uses - Created 2005-06-08 19:08:33 - Last used 2026-01-11 14:50:39 - Description - http://maps.yuan.cc/?{eop address=@%s@&zoom=${z=13} -else zoom=${z=2}}&service=${service=flickr}

xyzzy
Nothing happens.
41 uses - Created 2005-06-08 18:53:02 - Last used 2021-06-05 02:42:06 - Nominate - Description - http://sundae.triumf.ca/pub2/cave/node001.html

aart (Golden Egg)
Create ASCII art from text suitable for using in an email signiture.
213 uses - Created 2005-06-08 18:37:35 - Last used 2018-03-03 18:49:22 - Description - http://www.network-science.de/ascii/ascii.php?TEXT=%s&x=29&y=12&FONT=ogre&RICH=no&FORM=left&STRE=no

gmp3 (Golden Egg)
find mp3s using google
24821 uses - Created 2005-06-08 18:22:06 - Last used 2025-12-06 20:34:37 - Description - http://www.google.com/search?ie=UTF-8&sourceid=navclient&gfns=1&q=+-inurl%3Ahtm+-inurl%3Ahtml+intitle%3A%22index+of%22+%22Last+modified%22+mp3+%22%s%22

deli (Golden Egg)
delicious tags
17813 uses - Created 2005-06-08 17:45:15 - Last used 2025-11-26 02:57:38 - Description - http://del.icio.us/tag/%s

yoto
Searches for public domain images with the Yotophoto.com search engine, which queries several public domain image resources. ========== Old implementation: http://www.yotophoto.com/index.php?what=%s
221 uses - Created 2005-06-08 17:35:27 - Last used 2024-07-12 01:05:58 - Nominate - Description - http://yotophoto.com/images/%s/1

rcode (Golden Egg)
Searches all code on RAA for the specified commands. Useful for finding sample usage or just pleasing your statistical self.
23 uses - Created 2005-06-08 17:08:43 - Last used 2017-05-04 04:03:49 - Description - http://raa.ruby-lang.org/gonzui/search?q=%s

rails (Golden Egg)
Search the RubyOnRails web site (which includes API documentation) for the given term. This will find more than the 'ror' command, but it might produce results of lesser quality.
3901 uses - Created 2005-06-08 17:07:09 - Last used 2024-12-05 18:41:15 - Description - http://www.google.com/search?q=site:rubyonrails.com+%s

fdb (Golden Egg)
Searches freedb.org for artist or album information.
63 uses - Created 2005-06-08 15:25:30 - Last used 2022-06-16 08:38:50 - Description - http://www.freedb.org/freedb_search.php?words=%s&allfields=NO&fields=artist&fields=title&allcats=YES&grouping=none

netcraft (Golden Egg)
Displays what a site is running.
1180 uses - Created 2005-06-08 14:49:43 - Last used 2020-05-30 14:52:07 - Description - http://uptime.netcraft.com/up/graph?site=%s

zp
zap style sheets. Disables all style sheets. more at, http://www.squarefree.com/bookmarklets/webdevel.html
49 uses - Created 2005-06-08 14:34:19 - Last used 2021-07-29 07:18:52 - Nominate - Description - javascript:(function(){var i,x;for(i=0;x=document.styleSheets[i];++i)x.disabled=true;})();

wikipedia (Golden Egg)
English Wikipedia search
14074 uses - Created 2005-06-08 14:33:57 - Last used 2026-01-04 05:14:15 - Description - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Search?search=%s&go=Go

proxy (Golden Egg)
surf anonymously through the fireprox.com proxy
1342 uses - Created 2005-06-08 14:30:23 - Last used 2025-06-01 23:03:52 - Description - http://fireprox.com/index.php?url=%s

2t (Golden Egg)
SYNOPSIS 2t URL EXAMPLE 2t http://slashdot.org convers a page of HTML into clean, easy-to-read plain ASCII. Better yet, that ASCII also happens to be valid Markdown (a text-to-HTML format).
1545 uses - Created 2005-06-08 14:26:39 - Last used 2024-01-16 16:57:23 - Description - http://www.aaronsw.com/2002/html2text/?url=%s

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