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".

sigalert
Opens SIGALERT.com site for specified region. Example: sigalert San Diego If no region specified and cookie exists, uses region from cookie (so if you've visited the site before, you can omit the region to use the default) Warning: region must be Title Cased (initial caps on all words). The site is NOT forgiving... SIGALERT.com is a live traffic map website for California. chm
579 uses - Created 2007-08-15 00:35:33 - Last used 2017-11-16 23:11:28 - Nominate - Description - http://www.sigalert.com/map.asp?Region=%s

dwi
Search for Wikipedia articles using WikiDashboard. (a Wikipedia mirror with real-time insight in the edit history)
578 uses - Created 2008-11-10 17:16:08 - Last used 2013-03-31 11:14:15 - Nominate - Description - http://wikidashboard.parc.com/wiki/Special:Search?search=%s&fulltext=Search

franban

578 uses - Created 2014-10-13 18:41:07 - Last used 2019-08-20 07:30:43 - Nominate - Description - https://www.francesnetcash.com.ar/local_pibee/KDPOSolicitarCredenciales_es.html

huen
Hungarian-English dictionary at sztaki.hu with inline pronounciation.
578 uses - Created 2005-06-28 10:42:58 - Last used 2024-02-12 00:27:11 - Nominate - Description - http://dict.sztaki.hu/dict_search.php?L=HUN%3AENG%3AEngHunDict&O=HUN&flash=&E=1&in_form=1&W=%s&M=2&P=1&C=1&A=1&T=1&F=0

rnd (Golden Egg)
NAME rand - display a specified number of random numbers in a specified range, courtesy of random.org SYNOPSIS rand -min <min value = 1> -max <max value = 100> -num <how many to generate = 1> EXAMPLE rand 49 rand -min 1998 -max 2005 rand -num 5 -max 20 AUTHOR Richard Frankel
578 uses - Created 2005-07-19 02:37:54 - Last used 2021-09-20 09:00:48 - Description - http://jonathanaquino.com/random.php?num=${num=1}&min=${min=1}&max=%s${max}&col=1

gcodes
Google Code Search. Searches open source code for given string. does regexp and all.
578 uses - Created 2006-12-11 09:31:16 - Last used 2012-11-28 23:00:39 - Nominate - Description - http://www.google.com/codesearch?q=%s&hl=en&btnG=Search+Code

gaw
Search the Arch Linux Wiki (wiki.archlinux.org) via Google Site Search.
577 uses - Created 2009-03-11 07:46:29 - Last used 2018-01-11 09:07:15 - Nominate - Description - http://www.google.com/search?q=%s+site%3Awiki.archlinux.org

lauds
Today's morning prayers plus the invitatory psalm.
576 uses - Created 2006-01-30 02:17:34 - Last used 2018-10-11 22:27:13 - Nominate - Description - http://www.universalis.com/i-lauds.htm

love
The wikipedia entry for love (created so that no porn spammers hijacks this lovely word ;-)
576 uses - Created 2005-07-07 08:06:04 - Last used 2024-12-30 23:00:44 - Nominate - Description - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Love

lbbw
Online Banking für LB BW
576 uses - Created 2018-02-11 23:45:01 - Last used 2026-05-14 08:21:00 - Nominate - Description - https://www.bw-bank.de/onlinebanking

mla
Search on Mercado Libre Argentina
575 uses - Created 2009-04-04 14:57:35 - Last used 2025-02-16 06:25:16 - Nominate - Description - http://listado.mercadolibre.com.ar/%s

jdic2
wwwjdic search, but on an european mirror (usually faster than the main wwwjdic site)
575 uses - Created 2007-03-30 11:03:43 - Last used 2010-12-16 23:05:03 - Nominate - Description - http://jp.msmobiles.com/cgi-bin/wwwjdic.cgi?1MUJ%s

View
Get movie description from IMBD
575 uses - Created 2005-11-28 08:21:43 - Last used 2025-05-04 07:57:45 - Nominate - Description - http://www.imdb.com/find?q= %s

ysgs
Yahoo Singapore. Searches yahoo.com.sg for pages in Singapore only.
574 uses - Created 2006-02-04 15:13:48 - Last used 2012-07-21 14:19:44 - Nominate - Description - http://sg.search.yahoo.com/search?p=%s&y=Singapore&fr=FP-tab-web-t&toggle=1

decu

573 uses - Created 2006-09-20 02:56:41 - Last used 2025-12-04 14:57:21 - Nominate - Description - http://www.deltacommunitycu.com/main/index1.aspx

VNUs
This searches across all articles within the UK publishing house VNU. This includes CRN, IT Week, Computing etc. Example: VNUs broadband - finds all articles on VNU sites pertaining to broadband. ========== Old implementation: http://www.vnu.co.uk/search/?q=%s&articlesMax=&downloadsMax=&forumsMax=&reviewsMax=&staticMax=&source=+AND+%28information-technology%3ASOURCE%29&articlesMinscore=65&zone=
573 uses - Created 2007-04-18 13:26:35 - Last used 2012-04-03 08:29:57 - Nominate - Description - http://www.vnu.co.uk/search/?sort=date&section=all&category=all&page=1&source=all&q=%s&x=7&y=10

gemcutter
Search gemcutter.org for rubygems.
573 uses - Created 2009-11-25 01:13:37 - Last used 2013-01-11 02:25:09 - Nominate - Description - http://gemcutter.org/search?query=%s

fo
Freeones.com - Pornstar database
573 uses - Created 2008-06-02 16:54:44 - Last used 2025-10-27 10:50:22 - Nominate - Description - http://www.freeones.com/cgi-bin/search.cgi?b=%s

muo
MakeUseOf.com search. This site is a great resource for cool software, services, and hacks...all for free. Example: muo start menu Made my loyaleagle.
573 uses - Created 2008-06-05 15:32:05 - Last used 2020-08-22 12:45:35 - Nominate - Description - http://www.makeuseof.com/tech-fun/search/?cx=009717636731598800244%3Aqhe4rh7wuxs&cof=FORID%3A11&q=%s

emed
Searches the eMedicine clinical reference: a medical information website written for doctors.
572 uses - Created 2010-01-20 17:20:40 - Last used 2018-05-09 22:51:31 - Nominate - Description - http://search.medscape.com/emedicine-search?queryText=%s

att
Att Calladvantaqe Login
572 uses - Created 2005-12-26 03:22:07 - Last used 2025-10-29 12:38:52 - Nominate - Description - https://www.callvantage.att.com/

nedic
Naver English-English Dictionary, (Based on Collins) To see what fruit means, just type this: Example: nedic fruit This command is the same as the eedic command except: 'eedic' shows result in small window mode, while 'nedic' shows result in normal mode. the normal mode detects mis-spellings and suggests corrected words, but the normal mode also shows annoying flash ads.
572 uses - Created 2006-01-08 14:45:32 - Last used 2015-06-15 11:03:05 - Nominate - Description - http://eedic.naver.com/search.naver?query=%s

de

572 uses - Created 2005-07-08 13:12:56 - Last used 2025-10-05 00:43:14 - Nominate - Description - http://www.digitalexpressions.nu

gtd
Search the Getting Things Done forums. Example: gtd palm pocket pc
572 uses - Created 2005-10-06 03:36:30 - Last used 2022-09-08 01:39:41 - Nominate - Description - http://www.davidco.com/forum/search.php?do=process&query=%s

arin
search Arin whois Database syntax: arin [host name or IP] ~jbrown
571 uses - Created 2008-03-27 02:01:37 - Last used 2026-03-20 01:51:56 - Nominate - Description - http://ws.arin.net/whois/?queryinput=%s

marc
NAME marc - search the marc.info mailing list archive. SYNOPSIS marc [ <keywords> [ -list <listname> | -type {t,a,b} ] ] -list Specify the mailing list to search in. -type What fields to search. Can be one of: t = topic / subject a = authors b = body Full body search requires a list name. Thus, the default is "t" when no list is given, otherwise it's "b". EXAMPLES marc (goes to http://marc.info) marc foo (searches for subject "foo" in all lists in the archive) marc foo -list openbsd-misc (searc…
571 uses - Created 2008-07-09 11:56:26 - Last used 2026-05-09 19:13:21 - Nominate - Description - http://marc.info/{ifEmpty -value %s -then -else ?s=%s&q=${type={ifEmpty -value ${list} -then t -else b}}&l=${list}}

ent
Search Torrent site Entertane, which searches other torrent sites. fuck you
570 uses - Created 2009-09-13 02:29:43 - Last used 2026-05-22 03:38:51 - Nominate - Description - http://www.entertane.com/?searchq=%s

jira

570 uses - Created 2009-11-05 04:01:18 - Last used 2026-04-29 02:07:31 - Nominate - Description - https://kompass.objectconsulting.com.au/jira/browse/%s

uin
ICQ Number2Profile Search. Every user on ICQ Network, has his own unique identifying number (UIN). You can watch the profile of an icq user by knowing his UIN. Example: uin 123123
570 uses - Created 2005-07-07 10:44:33 - Last used 2022-02-15 14:53:29 - Nominate - Description - http://www.icq.com/whitepages/about_me.php?uin=%s

wpme
Takes you to your user page (Special:MyPage) on English Wikipedia.
569 uses - Created 2011-08-31 08:37:07 - Last used 2012-12-25 16:06:39 - Nominate - Description - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:MyPage

yav
Yahoo Messenger Avatar View some ID's avatar. Example: yav user
569 uses - Created 2007-09-28 14:26:55 - Last used 2014-01-18 11:16:46 - Nominate - Description - http://img.msg.yahoo.com/avatar.php?yids=%s

nbc
Look up a Bible chapter the excellent NextBible (net.bible.org)tool Syntax: nbc <book> <chapter> <tab> Example: nbc jn 3 xref The third parameter (tab) is optional but allows the selection of a tab within the page Note: this is a simplified positional version of nextbiblechapter
568 uses - Created 2007-10-25 09:31:09 - Last used 2026-04-04 20:05:56 - Nominate - Description - nextbiblechapter -book {% 1 %s} -chapter {% 2 %s} -tab {% 3 %s}[no url encoding]

babel
Translations into various languages in babel fish of altavista.
568 uses - Created 2006-04-18 11:03:01 - Last used 2024-10-28 10:09:57 - Nominate - Description - http://babelfish.altavista.com/

hltb
Search Howlongtobeat.com for game, enter game name to search.
568 uses - Created 2022-10-19 08:50:57 - Last used 2026-05-23 03:10:23 - Nominate - Description - https://howlongtobeat.com/?q=%s

enham
angel halo wiki mirror
567 uses - Created 2013-08-20 23:58:13 - Last used 2015-05-08 21:35:01 - Nominate - Description - http://mirror.enha.kr/wiki/%s[use %20 for spaces]

cygwin
Search cygwin's package list.
567 uses - Created 2008-04-25 16:47:21 - Last used 2023-01-15 08:37:54 - Nominate - Description - http://cygwin.com/cgi-bin2/package-grep.cgi?grep=%s

wnt (Golden Egg)
Create a note in Webnote ( http://www.aypwip.org/webnote/ ) usage: wnt [title] ex: wnt zoonim wnt hahanim wnt kimchi.recipes wnt kimchi.kinds mnemonic: WebNoTe --> WNT
566 uses - Created 2006-03-09 00:24:21 - Last used 2016-11-30 00:45:45 - Description - http://www.aypwip.org/webnote/%s

single
Search Allmusic by songtitle.
566 uses - Created 2005-10-22 22:11:20 - Last used 2025-09-15 14:22:10 - Nominate - Description - http://allmusic.com/search/song/%s

dnsmx
Syntax: dnsmx {domain} Displays the DNS MX record for the specified domain using DNSStuff.com Example: dnsmx yahoo.com
565 uses - Created 2006-04-21 07:15:43 - Last used 2014-02-07 14:27:38 - Nominate - Description - http://www.dnsstuff.com/tools/lookup.ch?name=%s&type=MX

ao3
search Archive of Our Own (aka ao3)
565 uses - Created 2012-10-12 12:14:16 - Last used 2025-10-03 08:41:23 - Nominate - Description - https://archiveofourown.org/works/search?utf8=✓&query[text]=%s

ñ
Busca en zippyshare.com a través de Google
565 uses - Created 2010-03-22 16:08:34 - Last used 2013-05-27 23:20:38 - Nominate - Description - http://www.google.es/#hl=es&source=hp&q=site%3Azippyshare.com+%s

ubs
Search for bugs in Launchpad, Ubuntu's bug tracking system. Example - to find bugs relating to Thinkpad laptops: ubs thinkpad NB: If you are looking for bugs in a particular package, use lupb instead
565 uses - Created 2007-03-11 22:16:34 - Last used 2026-04-02 08:52:44 - Nominate - Description - https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+bugs?field.searchtext=%s

freebox
To access your Freebox Profile [Pour accéder à votre page d'identifiant Freebox]
564 uses - Created 2008-05-05 23:36:41 - Last used 2025-02-26 06:49:02 - Nominate - Description - http://subscribe.free.fr/login/

pizza
Order pizza online from Papa John's
564 uses - Created 2005-06-20 19:16:07 - Last used 2025-06-10 20:59:36 - Nominate - Description - http://www.papajohnsonline.com/index.html

ext
FilExt Search. Find the file type associated with a file extension.
563 uses - Created 2005-07-04 10:45:59 - Last used 2022-03-17 22:09:09 - Nominate - Description - http://filext.com/detaillist.php?extdetail=%s&Submit3=Go%21

tarr!
Busca en TARINGA y ordena los resultados por relevancia (los comandos TARINGA, TAR! y TA! no te lo ordenan) (command by l3utterfish) Ejemplo: tarr! photoshop portable
563 uses - Created 2009-11-23 19:01:04 - Last used 2017-10-30 09:03:56 - Nominate - Description - http://www.taringa.net/buscador-taringa.php?q=%s&cat=-1&autor=&sort_by=0

kass
KickAssTorrents
562 uses - Created 2010-01-02 16:57:53 - Last used 2016-05-17 04:56:02 - Nominate - Description - http://www.kickasstorrents.com/torrents/search/?q=%s

iploc
Use geobytes.com to determine the physical location of any IP address.
561 uses - Created 2005-07-03 12:23:17 - Last used 2025-03-13 19:52:04 - Nominate - Description - http://geobytes.com/IpLocator.htm?GetLocation&ipaddress=%s

No
Runescape
561 uses - Created 2005-06-14 18:57:32 - Last used 2025-04-29 06:37:43 - Nominate - Description - http://nomadgaming.com

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