Command List (ls)

Tip: For a list of particularly interesting Yubnub commands, check out Yubnub Golden Eggs. Also see the Most-Used Commands.

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yandex
Makes a query to the Yandex Search Engine (popular russian service).
1513 uses - Created 2005-06-08 09:33:22 - Last used 2025-10-20 07:04:22 - Nominate - Description - http://yandex.ru/yandsearch?&text=%s

art (Golden Egg)
Search the Web Gallery of Art (text)
1137 uses - Created 2005-06-08 08:44:36 - Last used 2025-12-15 20:59:52 - Description - http://www.wga.hu/cgi-bin/search.cgi?comment=%s&lang=2&author=&time=any&form=any

dw (Golden Egg)
Searches for the given Keyword in the DokuWiki at http://wiki.splitbrain.org
193 uses - Created 2005-06-08 07:55:37 - Last used 2025-12-16 00:40:56 - Description - http://wiki.splitbrain.org/?do=search&id=%s

cw (Golden Egg)
SYNOPSIS cw EXAMPLE cw Launches ClockWork, a set of timers that you can start and stop. ClockWork is ideal for anyone who works with clients on an hourly basis, or needs a solution to track productivity for any task or project. ClockWork allows you the flexibility to start, pause and resume an unlimited amount of task timers making it easy to switch between tasks without delay. You simultaneously run timers for multi-tasked projects, or easily switch back and forth between tasks, all without ev…
292 uses - Created 2005-06-08 06:03:09 - Last used 2025-10-19 13:54:46 - Description - http://clockwork.jupit.net/

up (Golden Egg)
browse upcoming.org events by tag
396 uses - Created 2005-06-08 03:52:18 - Last used 2025-06-28 05:31:45 - Description - http://upcoming.org/tag/%s

df (Golden Egg)
SYNOPSIS df TERM EXAMPLE --sort=name --include-spam All the definitions for a term found by Google (define:term)
1513 uses - Created 2005-06-08 03:39:44 - Last used 2025-09-17 21:01:18 - Description - http://www.google.com/search?q=define%3A%s

penny-arcade
Search penny arcade by keyword.
57 uses - Created 2005-06-07 22:11:42 - Last used 2024-08-27 17:41:33 - Nominate - Description - http://penny-arcade.com/search.php?keywords=%s&jointype=1&searchtype=1

goats
Search goats comics for text: try 'fornicate' for some classic Jerrell strips.
37 uses - Created 2005-06-07 22:03:38 - Last used 2018-10-28 13:46:11 - Nominate - Description - http://goats.com/search/?q=%s&search=comics

apt-search (Golden Egg)
Unofficial APT repositories apt-get.org is intended as a place for people to share useful APT (Advanced Package Tool) sources for the Debian operating system.
59 uses - Created 2005-06-07 21:52:56 - Last used 2024-11-04 11:06:24 - Description - http://www1.apt-get.org/search.php?query=%s&submit=&arch%5B%5D=all

mycroft (Golden Egg)
Here you can find a Search plugin for your favorite site you can add to the Sidebar panel or to the search box (Mozilla Firefox). Just enter a site name.
405 uses - Created 2005-06-07 21:45:56 - Last used 2025-10-15 01:21:49 - Description - http://mycroft.mozdev.org/download.html?name=%s&submitform=Find+search+plugins

jobs (Golden Egg)
Performs a search at Indeed.com for available jobs that include the keywords provided.
657 uses - Created 2005-06-07 21:42:48 - Last used 2026-01-06 08:05:21 - Description - http://www.indeed.com/jobs?q=%s

yim (Golden Egg)
Yahoo Image search
28607 uses - Created 2005-06-07 21:33:13 - Last used 2026-01-01 04:12:03 - Description - http://images.search.yahoo.com/search/images?p=%s

FindPost (Golden Egg)
Invokes the main http://feedster.com search to find Blog Posts, News Articles, and Other Documents that contain the keywords you type in.
18 uses - Created 2005-06-07 21:27:19 - Last used 2010-05-30 17:12:18 - Description - http://www.feedster.com/search.php?q=%s

scigen (Golden Egg)
SYNOPSIS scigen -author1 [name] -author2 [name] -author3 [name] EXAMPLE scigen -author1 Jane Doe -author2 John Smith SCIgen is a program that generates random Computer Science research papers, including graphs, figures, and citations. It uses a hand-written context-free grammar to form all elements of the papers. Our aim here is to maximize amusement, rather than coherence.
107 uses - Created 2005-06-07 21:27:03 - Last used 2020-10-17 10:25:35 - Description - http://punitive-surgery.lcs.mit.edu/cgi-bin/scigen.cgi?author=%s&author=${author1}&author=${author2}&author=${author3}

FindFeed (Golden Egg)
This command invokes http://feedfinder.feedster.com to find feeds about the keywords you specify.
54 uses - Created 2005-06-07 21:24:48 - Last used 2022-10-27 19:10:02 - Description - http://feedfinder.feedster.com/search.php?db=feeds&sort=relevance&q=%s

wunder (Golden Egg)
Look up weather on The Weather Underground. usage: wunder {city|state|zip|airport code|country} examples: wunder Philadelphia wunder MI wunder 90210 wunder ORF wunder Belgium
5519 uses - Created 2005-06-07 20:31:55 - Last used 2025-07-22 14:00:09 - Description - http://www.wunderground.com/cgi-bin/findweather/getForecast?query=%s

joule (Golden Egg)
Takes you to marnanel.org's joule for the user specified. Joule allows you to show a history of the user's LiveJournal friendings and defriendings.
61 uses - Created 2005-06-07 20:22:06 - Last used 2011-12-21 15:08:58 - Description - http://marnanel.org/joule?user=%s

lorem (Golden Egg)
generate Lorem Ipsum usage: lorem {number of paragraphs}
2341 uses - Created 2005-06-07 20:21:00 - Last used 2024-04-30 06:38:07 - Description - http://www.lipsum.com/feed/html?amount=%s

acro (Golden Egg)
Look up the definition of an acronym.
4224 uses - Created 2005-06-07 20:19:04 - Last used 2025-12-14 16:37:21 - Description - http://www.acronymfinder.com/af-query.asp?Acronym=%s&String=exact

bible (Golden Egg)
Enter the Bible passage (e.g. John 3:16), keyword (e.g. Jesus, prophet, etc.) or topic (e.g. salvation) you want to find.
13699 uses - Created 2005-06-07 20:16:55 - Last used 2026-01-11 02:05:21 - Description - http://www.biblegateway.com/quicksearch/?quicksearch=%s

urban (Golden Egg)
Look-up a term in UrbanDictionary.com
12690 uses - Created 2005-06-07 20:14:43 - Last used 2026-01-05 06:55:26 - Description - http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=%s

w3c (Golden Egg)
w3c validation for the given URL
1736 uses - Created 2005-06-07 20:14:00 - Last used 2025-02-11 06:47:10 - Description - http://validator.w3.org/check?uri=%s

xanga (Golden Egg)
Jump directly to a user's Xanga site. Used: "xanga you_do" jumps to www.xanga.com/you_do
203 uses - Created 2005-06-07 19:32:35 - Last used 2026-01-06 13:47:31 - Description - http://www.xanga.com/%s

tz
Searches www.torrentz.com Keywords: torrent, torrents, bittorent, p2p
6505 uses - Created 2005-06-07 19:12:07 - Last used 2022-06-21 23:59:19 - Nominate - Description - http://www.torrentz.com/search?q=%s

arc (Golden Egg)
SYNOPSIS arc [keywords] EXAMPLE arc accessworkspacefactory Searches ArcGIS Developer Online for the given keywords. ArcGIS Developer Online is an online help system for ArcObjects for ArcGIS. ArcGIS is a well-known Geographic Information System (software for viewing maps).
725 uses - Created 2005-06-07 18:37:21 - Last used 2025-11-13 08:28:47 - Description - http://edn.esri.com/index.cfm?fa=search.results&c_2_b=on&sa=2&q=%s

dnow (Golden Egg)
SYNOPSIS dnow [YYYY-MMDD] EXAMPLE dnow 2005-0607 dnow Play the Democracy Now archive from archive.org. Democracy Now is a daily radio and TV news program on over 300 stations, pioneering the largest community media collaboration in the US. Specify a date in YYYY-MMDD format. Or leave out the date for today's show.
39 uses - Created 2005-06-07 18:03:03 - Last used 2023-03-03 13:17:12 - Description - http://yubnub.org/example/dnow?args=%s

old-ts (Golden Egg)
Search TorrentSpy.com
22752 uses - Created 2005-06-07 17:55:08 - Last used 2021-05-18 10:09:04 - Description - http://www.torrentspy.com/search.asp?query=%s

ntk (Golden Egg)
Searches Need To Know (http://www.ntk.net/)
27 uses - Created 2005-06-07 17:43:29 - Last used 2023-03-03 13:19:12 - Description - http://www.ntk.net/index.cgi?searchv=%s

javadoc-1.4.2 (Golden Egg)
Search Sun's Javadoc for Java 1.4.2
23 uses - Created 2005-06-07 17:37:37 - Last used 2009-05-06 04:51:20 - Description - http://www.google.com/search?client=googlet&q=site%3Ajava.sun.com%2Fj2se%2F1.4.2%2Fdocs%2Fapi+%s

javadoc (Golden Egg)
Google Search Sun's Javadocs
956 uses - Created 2005-06-07 17:30:35 - Last used 2023-02-20 03:22:44 - Description - http://javadocs.org/%s

bd (Golden Egg)
Search BD Paradisio (french comics site)
156 uses - Created 2005-06-07 17:13:53 - Last used 2024-05-07 12:36:50 - Description - http://www.bdparadisio.com/scripts/BdP_SearchResults.cfm?SearchedKey=%s

gl (Golden Egg)
Google Linux Search (google.com/linux)
11086 uses - Created 2005-06-07 16:19:24 - Last used 2025-08-15 10:56:52 - Description - http://www.google.com/linux?q=%s&sourceid=yubnub.org

msdn (Golden Egg)
SYNOPSIS msdn [keywords] EXAMPLE msdn arraylist Searches the Microsoft Developer Network for the given keywords. For more information on query syntax, see http://search.microsoft.com/search/help.aspx?View=msdn ========== Old implementation: http://msdn.microsoft.com/msdn-online/shared/components/mscomsearch30.aspx?qu=%s
8550 uses - Created 2005-06-07 16:13:46 - Last used 2025-07-22 23:51:40 - Description - http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Search/en-us/?query=%s

smallr (Golden Egg)
Make a URL smaller. smallr http://some.url.com/
14 uses - Created 2005-06-07 12:40:49 - Last used 2023-03-03 13:20:27 - Description - http://smallr.com/url/make?url=%s

tr (Golden Egg)
SYNOPSIS tr FROM TO TEXT EXAMPLES tr en fr hello Translates the given text from the first language to the second language, courtesy of Google Language Tools. The above example translates "hello" from English (en) to French (fr). Not all language combinations are available. Chinese (Simplified) zh-CN English ............ en French ............. fr German ............. de Italian ............ it Japanese ........... ja Korean ............. ko Portuguese ......... pt Spanish ............ es
53214 uses - Created 2005-06-07 06:37:56 - Last used 2026-01-07 09:44:13 - Description - http://yubnub.org/example/tr?args=%s

tts (Golden Egg)
Text-to-speech demo from AT&T Labs. Sounds amazing. Update: Mark Beutnagel at AT&T asked me if I would disable the direct link, as it is a research demo with limited resources. --Jon
2315 uses - Created 2005-06-07 05:52:24 - Last used 2025-12-13 12:11:29 - Description - http://www.research.att.com/projects/tts/demo.html?%s

sd (Golden Egg)
SYNOPSIS sd EXAMPLE sd Slashdot is "News for nerds. Stuff that matters."
2163 uses - Created 2005-06-07 03:59:22 - Last used 2025-10-20 00:59:41 - Description - http://slashdot.org

gc (Golden Egg)
SYNOPSIS gc EXAMPLE gc gc stands for Gmail Compose. Launches Gmail in "Compose Mail" mode.
5515 uses - Created 2005-06-07 03:50:55 - Last used 2023-06-01 23:56:03 - Description - https://mail.google.com/mail/#compose

bl (Golden Egg)
Bloglines Usage: if used without an argument, goes to the Bloglines homepage, if used with an argument goes to the subscribe page for that url (could be a website with a feed, or a feed). You might have to log in first. Examples: bl bl wired.com bl http://wired.com/feed.xml Stian Haklev, shaklev@gmail.com (thanks for the help guys) (added tweak from b.a.)
22864 uses - Created 2005-06-07 03:41:23 - Last used 2025-08-25 19:29:27 - Description - http://www.bloglines.com/{ifthen -value1 %s -value2 -test NOTEQUAL -then sub/%s -else myblogs}[no url encoding]

lyr (Golden Egg)
Search lyricsdir.com for lyrics ========== Old implementation: http://www.lyricsdir.com/search/?q=%s
1429 uses - Created 2005-06-06 23:56:45 - Last used 2019-05-16 04:48:14 - Description - http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=site:www.lyricsdir.com+%s

jd (Golden Egg)
SYNOPSIS jd [class] EXAMPLE jd String Displays the JavaDoc for the given Java class, courtesy of javadocs.org. ---------- Old implementation: http://javadocs.org/%s
8006 uses - Created 2005-06-06 23:09:38 - Last used 2025-03-19 09:59:58 - Description - http://www.legistar.com/docs2web/s.jsp?q=%s&t=q

lj (Golden Egg)
Jump to a given LiveJournal user's journal. "lj <username>" "lj <username>/friends/" should also take you to the friends page in question.
6298 uses - Created 2005-06-06 21:37:08 - Last used 2023-09-23 21:32:49 - Description - http://www.livejournal.com/users/%s[no url encoding]

quotation (Golden Egg)
Popular quotations search.
150 uses - Created 2005-06-06 21:01:10 - Last used 2019-08-31 11:32:54 - Description - http://www.quotationspage.com/search.php3?homesearch=%s&startsearch=Search

math (Golden Egg)
Search MathWorld. All things mathematical.
1928 uses - Created 2005-06-06 20:55:01 - Last used 2025-12-12 00:58:49 - Description - http://mathworld.wolfram.com/search/?query=%s

groups (Golden Egg)
Google groups search. ---------- Old implementation: http://groups-beta.google.com/groups?hl=en&q=%s&qt_s=Search
5398 uses - Created 2005-06-06 20:53:16 - Last used 2025-09-05 10:11:32 - Description - http://groups.google.com/groups/search?q=%s

pear (Golden Egg)
Search PEAR php archive.
976 uses - Created 2005-06-06 20:52:23 - Last used 2024-08-27 17:42:33 - Description - http://pear.php.net/%s

mw (Golden Egg)
Mererian-Webster dictionary lookup. ---------- Old implementation: http://www.m-w.com/cgi-bin/dictionary?book=Dictionary&va=%s&x=0&y=0
38535 uses - Created 2005-06-06 20:47:53 - Last used 2026-01-11 11:29:28 - Description - http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/%s

python (Golden Egg)
Python site search (via Google).
20600 uses - Created 2005-06-06 20:45:39 - Last used 2026-01-02 00:03:16 - Description - http://www.google.com/search?q=%s&domains=docs.python.org&sitesearch=docs.python.org&sourceid=google-search&submit=submit

gmail (Golden Egg)
With no parameter, opens GMail, with a parameter, searches GMail for parameter (must be logged in). Examples: gmail - opens GMail gmail world peace - searches GMail for world peace (if logged in) Stian Haklev, shaklev@gmail.com. My first command using eop, thanks Allen, this is awesome!
145696 uses - Created 2005-06-06 20:39:07 - Last used 2026-01-11 09:45:58 - Description - https://gmail.google.com/{eop gmail?search=query&q=@%s@&view=tl&fs=1}

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