Tips tagged wget


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Tip #878   Random xkcd comic

Displays a random xkcd comic. Requires ImageMagick.

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Tip #843   Backup delicious bookmarks

Use this command to backup your del.icio.us bookmarks from the commandline with curl.

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Tip #821   Command line currency conversion

The script below can be used to convert between different currencies on the command line. In order to use the script, you would enter something like "[scriptname] 150 USD GBP" to give the value of 150 US dollars in British pounds.

Supported currencies are Euro, U.S. dollar British pound, Japanese yen, Swiss franc, Canadian dollar, Australian dollar, and Indian rupee.

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Tip #768   Stream shell commands to Twitter

When I read the tip yesterday (Twitter from the terminal), I thought it would be fun to set something up to tweet all the commands I enter. After a bit of playing around I have come up with the following:

First you'll need to create a script, it doesn't matter what you call it, just remember the name and path to it for later.

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Tip #767   Twitter from the terminal

I wrote a small script, I named it "tw" to update twitter from terminal:

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