Yep, a short list of useful one-liners would go a long way. Often, your use-case will be a straight specialisation of one of the examples, and if not, chances a

Yep, a short list of useful one-liners would go a long way. Often, your use-case will be a straight specialisation of one of the examples, and if not, chances are you can cobble together something from several examples. I'd like to have a auxiliary help command for this, e.g. example ffmpeg in addition to man ffmpeg (another 18k words manpage). Edit: This works rather well: function cmdfu() { curl "http://www.commandlinefu.com/commands/matching/$@/$(echo -n $@ | openssl base64)/plaintext" --silent | sed "s/\(^#.*\)/\x1b[32m\1\x1b[0m/g" } From http://www.commandlinefu.com/commands/view/3086/search-commandlinefu.com-from-the-command-line-using-the-api#comment http://www.commandlinefu.com/commands/view/3086/search-comma..., it uses the commandlinefu API: http://www.commandlinefu.com/site/api http://www.commandlinefu.com/site/api