The Most-Used Commands

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".

googmp3
Google MP3 Beta
93 uses - Created 2006-04-17 22:53:09 - Last used 2024-10-20 04:12:47 - Nominate - Description - http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&lr=&q=%22parent+directory%22+%2B+%22mp3%22+%2B+%22%s%22+-filetype%3Ahtm+-filetype%3Ahtml+-filetype%3Aphp+-filetype%3Aasp&btnG=Search

eurlex
Looks for Google results in the Eur-Lex multilingual document database. Useful for finding parallel texts when translating.
93 uses - Created 2011-08-19 18:10:31 - Last used 2025-11-16 23:07:02 - Nominate - Description - http://www.google.com/search?q=inurl%3Aeur-lex+%s

dpar
Search with DuckDuckGo.com with multiple parameters. _do_ -> adds a prefix to the search for shortcuts, ie 'define' or 'synonym for'. _this_ -> the search terms.
93 uses - Created 2012-07-17 12:28:02 - Last used 2019-09-11 10:51:39 - Nominate - Description - http://duckduckgo.com/?q=${do}+${this}

diff
Online diff of two files, powered by ExamDiff pro.
93 uses - Created 2016-03-25 19:57:45 - Last used 2022-05-02 12:25:26 - Nominate - Description - https://www.diffnow.com/

bboard
Access the Bitcoin forum
93 uses - Created 2011-06-04 13:28:22 - Last used 2011-07-15 14:12:31 - Nominate - Description - http://forum.bitcoin.org/

ptorrent
Search pizzatorrent.com
93 uses - Created 2008-11-19 04:06:09 - Last used 2019-09-30 12:50:24 - Nominate - Description - http://www.pizzatorrent.com/%s-torrents

Moody
searches Moody's Ratings page and returns collected research
93 uses - Created 2009-03-13 13:50:52 - Last used 2024-07-01 07:24:15 - Nominate - Description - http://v2.moodys.com/moodys/cust/search/issuernamesyncsearchresult.asp?searchident=qcksearch&startkey=0&search=1&searchquery=%s

As.

93 uses - Created 2009-05-14 19:59:02 - Last used 2023-07-12 08:08:16 - Nominate - Description - http://www.as.com/

inffrance
takes you to infobel french white pages
93 uses - Created 2007-01-09 11:55:24 - Last used 2011-04-05 09:53:53 - Nominate - Description - http://www.infobel.com/teldir/result.asp?country=60&URL=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.infobel.com%2Ffrance%2Fwp%2Fsearch%2Fdefault.asp

ydict
yodao dict
93 uses - Created 2007-01-18 06:46:34 - Last used 2020-09-21 19:08:58 - Nominate - Description - http://dict.yodao.com/search?tab=chn&keyfrom=dict.result&q=%s

bvb
Basel (Switzerland) public transportation: gets you to a website where you can search for connections in the Basel public transport system
93 uses - Created 2007-03-25 09:59:04 - Last used 2019-11-22 04:41:05 - Nominate - Description - http://www.mybasel.ch/verkehr_bvbfahrplan_fahrplan.cfm

lynda
Search Lynda.com for tutorials.
93 uses - Created 2008-06-12 14:22:39 - Last used 2025-08-29 15:10:35 - Nominate - Description - http://www.lynda.com/search/?q=%s

fff

93 uses - Created 2008-07-11 00:01:02 - Last used 2025-12-31 02:38:03 - Nominate - Description - http://images.google.com/images?q=%s

cssdog
Get HTML Dog's documentation for a CSS property. e.g. cssdog border
93 uses - Created 2009-08-25 09:04:00 - Last used 2016-10-05 04:18:09 - Nominate - Description - http://www.htmldog.com/reference/cssproperties/%s/

frcp
Searches for a rule in the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure on http://www.law.cornell.edu/rules/frcp/. Search by rule number, e.g. "frcp 4" for Rule 4.
93 uses - Created 2009-09-27 07:07:21 - Last used 2017-07-13 13:40:17 - Nominate - Description - http://www.law.cornell.edu/rules/frcp/Rule%s.htm

ano
Uses anonymouse proxy for anonymous browsing. Alternative to command "anm" as not all urls start with www.
93 uses - Created 2009-09-28 10:13:53 - Last used 2024-01-14 11:19:48 - Nominate - Description - http://anonymouse.org/cgi-bin/anon-www.cgi/http://%s

ejf
Elitist Jerks Forum.
93 uses - Created 2009-10-09 20:24:41 - Last used 2017-10-31 10:49:46 - Nominate - Description - http://elitistjerks.com/forums.php

ltax
searches lake county, illinois taxes requires dashes
93 uses - Created 2010-03-02 17:08:56 - Last used 2012-04-30 15:43:25 - Nominate - Description - http://oldapps.lakecountyil.gov/sptreasurer/collbook/collbook4.asp?Pin=%s

mger

93 uses - Created 2008-02-06 01:45:44 - Last used 2024-05-23 01:09:23 - Nominate - Description - http://www.metager.de/meta/cgi-bin/meta.ger1?eingabe=%s&mm=and&hits=&linkTest=no&check_time=3&maxtreffer=200&sorturls=&sorturls_kompakt=&allesklar=&allthedoc=&allthepix=&allthesound=&atsearch=on&blitzsuche=&crawler=&crossbot=&deutschland=&dmoz=on&dmozint=&metarss=on&ebay=&etoc=&fastbot=on&onlinks=&firstsfind=on&firstsfind_int=&fportal=on&fpdiss=&portalu=on&harvest=on&wikipedia=on&hurrade=&intersearch=&mediastreet=&mirago=&msn=&overture=on&plaff=&qualigo-ch=&qualigo=&sharelook=&tiborder=&tonline=&vondo=&witch=on&yahoo=&Nachrichten=on&Usenet=&nebel=on&seekport=&exalead=on&nutch=&suchclip=on&cpase=&intnews=&tauchen=&usunis=&plazoo=&ngsearch=&clewwa=&stellendirekt=&mrwong=on&komercatv=&audioclipping=on&regengergie=&yacy=&tuhh=on&ecoshopper=&BASE=&zoggle=&kompaktsuche=&start=1&QuickTips=beschleuniger&sprueche=on&newWindow=1&sorturls=&textmenge=2&showList=&synonyme=on&wikiboost=on&wissRank=on&time=2&hitsPerServer=2

ref
Search BusinessWeek database of more than 300,000 private or 42,000 public companies by name using ref and -c for company name and -t for public or private ownership (defaults to private)
93 uses - Created 2008-03-06 20:27:25 - Last used 2023-12-24 21:28:25 - Nominate - Description - http://investing.businessweek.com/research/common/symbollookup/symbollookup.asp?region=ALL&letterIn=${c}&lookuptype=${t=private}

japi
Search via google i'm feeling lucky in the javadoc for a particular page. Extremely awesome... try japi collections
93 uses - Created 2008-03-07 09:23:04 - Last used 2013-01-10 22:59:23 - Nominate - Description - http://www.google.com/search?q=site:http://java.sun.com/j2se %s&btnI=I'm+Feeling+Lucky

bibso
Find urls or bibliographic @ bibsonomy.org
93 uses - Created 2008-04-08 13:26:56 - Last used 2012-04-02 09:05:41 - Nominate - Description - http://www.bibsonomy.org/search/%s

vista
To use WebCT Vista for University of Sheffield students, takes you to the login screen.
92 uses - Created 2007-02-14 12:38:50 - Last used 2019-12-22 15:20:47 - Nominate - Description - http://vista.shef.ac.uk

a1
Altavista Audio Search
92 uses - Created 2007-02-19 22:44:17 - Last used 2025-10-02 06:21:21 - Nominate - Description - http://www.altavista.com/audio/results?q=%s&mik=photo&mik=graphic&mip=all&mis=all&miwxh=all

indent
NAME indent - Jon's HTML/XHTML indenter SYNOPSIS indent Paste HTML or XML into the top box, then press the button. AUTHOR Jonathan Aquino
92 uses - Created 2007-03-28 18:11:38 - Last used 2017-03-19 17:55:57 - Nominate - Description - http://jonathanaquino.com/indenter.php

gpw
Google Past Week Returns results in the past week for the search term
92 uses - Created 2007-09-16 17:05:00 - Last used 2024-01-21 12:05:02 - Nominate - Description - http://www.google.com/search?as_q=%s&hl=en&num=50&as_qdr=w&safe=off

heat

92 uses - Created 2007-11-26 14:11:38 - Last used 2022-10-19 07:45:26 - Nominate - Description - https://www.google.com/search?q=heat

instp

92 uses - Created 2009-01-18 19:22:09 - Last used 2023-12-11 08:37:12 - Nominate - Description - http://www.instapaper.com/u

vetters
forwards to vetters exchange server
92 uses - Created 2009-01-31 09:30:01 - Last used 2009-03-24 06:32:17 - Nominate - Description - https://vetters.ch/exchange

jarf
Searches www.findjar.com findJAR.com is a JAR search engine that helps to find JAR files containing required Java classes. findJAR.com can be used to easily resolve NoClassDefFoundError and ClassNotFoundException problems.
92 uses - Created 2009-04-07 18:54:01 - Last used 2015-07-13 20:27:07 - Nominate - Description - http://findjar.com/index.x?query=%s

aion
Search the NA Aion site
92 uses - Created 2009-10-07 18:54:45 - Last used 2022-08-10 19:55:58 - Nominate - Description - http://search.na.aiononline.com/aion/index.jsp?query=%s&where=aionweb^tsearch&site=powerbook&pos=lnb

dealn
A synonym for "dealn" - a DealNews search.
92 uses - Created 2009-12-10 23:08:47 - Last used 2021-05-12 19:42:34 - Nominate - Description - dnews %s

spore
Takes you to the official spore website.
92 uses - Created 2008-06-28 21:19:19 - Last used 2014-04-24 02:45:19 - Nominate - Description - http://www.spore.com/

puritan
Puritan Pride Search. Purtian's Pride is a great source for Vitamins and Herbal Supplements. Example:puritan omega3
92 uses - Created 2008-08-11 17:46:37 - Last used 2021-11-25 15:58:55 - Nominate - Description - http://www.puritan.com/pages/iq.asp?SearchText=%s

intmod
NAME intmod - Evaluate an integer modulus expression. SYNOPSIS intmod -num [NUMERATOR] -den [DENOMINATOR] The intmod command divides one value by another and returns the remaining integer. It uses the round and divide commands created by Allen Ormond. EXAMPLES modulus -num 10 -den 5 Returns 2. modulus -num 10 -den 3 Returns 3. AUTHOR Paul M. Boren pmboren AT gmail DOT com
92 uses - Created 2008-08-14 05:16:52 - Last used 2013-02-15 08:33:38 - Nominate - Description - round {divide ${num} ${den}}

dump
search dump.com for erotic video usage: dump voluptuous
92 uses - Created 2008-08-25 06:08:37 - Last used 2026-03-20 06:38:30 - Nominate - Description - http://www.dump.com/%s

azns

92 uses - Created 2007-06-12 08:46:37 - Last used 2009-07-22 14:52:20 - Nominate - Description - http://www.veqq.com/index.php?cat=Asian

pnap
podnapisi.net
92 uses - Created 2007-08-13 13:46:25 - Last used 2008-11-25 06:27:13 - Nominate - Description - http://www.podnapisi.net/index.php/ppodnapisi/search?tbsl=1&sK=%s&sJ=0&sY=&submit=I%C5%A1%C4%8Di

fbsd-pr
Queriers the FreeBSD GNATS system for a Problem Report (by ID)
92 uses - Created 2006-03-20 22:26:57 - Last used 2010-08-18 15:54:15 - Nominate - Description - http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=%s

btw
NAME btw - Takes you to BoxtheWeb AUTHOR Stephen Paul Weber a.k.a. Singpolyma http://singpolyma-tech.blogspot.com/
92 uses - Created 2006-04-05 07:34:20 - Last used 2020-12-04 08:36:12 - Nominate - Description - http://boxtheweb.4x2.net/

israel

92 uses - Created 2005-06-10 07:52:01 - Last used 2024-06-23 05:44:29 - Nominate - Description - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Israel

gas

92 uses - Created 2005-06-16 09:11:21 - Last used 2023-10-17 07:54:46 - Nominate - Description - http://gasgroup.com

atom
Webisodes
92 uses - Created 2005-06-19 01:54:34 - Last used 2022-06-04 17:55:31 - Nominate - Description - http://atomfilms.com

packetnews
Search PacketNews (IRC search for XDCC bots)
92 uses - Created 2006-09-30 00:07:01 - Last used 2010-01-04 05:20:26 - Nominate - Description - http://www.packetnews.com/search.php?kw=%s&type=0

rndclrsplit

92 uses - Created 2005-12-21 16:01:58 - Last used 2011-10-26 15:29:34 - Nominate - Description - split {url[no url encoding] randomcolor} {url[no url encoding] rndclrsplit}

bin
Blogged IT News
92 uses - Created 2005-12-26 21:07:36 - Last used 2023-05-30 07:14:50 - Nominate - Description - http://bloggeditnews.com/

greedland
searched the greedLand anime torrent tracker
92 uses - Created 2006-01-20 16:51:37 - Last used 2025-09-19 14:56:21 - Nominate - Description - http://p.greedland.net/search.php?key=%s&cateId=&Submit=%CB%D1%CB%F7

clr
Clusty Search. Clusty uses a Clustering Engine to organize search results into folders grouping similar items together. To cluster a search, simply type in your search term after the word "cluster." Example: cluster [Your Keyword Here] For instance, if you wanted to search for "The Homestar Runner," you would enter: cluster "The Homestar Runner"
92 uses - Created 2006-01-23 04:49:03 - Last used 2020-08-18 10:05:03 - Nominate - Description - http://clusty.com/search?query=%s

fallout
Takes one to the Fallout centre of No Mutants Allowed!
92 uses - Created 2005-09-18 15:07:37 - Last used 2022-01-09 12:01:09 - Nominate - Description - http://www.nma-fallout.com

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