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Show HN: Commandlinefu.com from the commmandline

106 points by samirahmed 15y ago

mise 15y ago
Really cool, well done. For others who have not seen commandlinefu.com, it's a collection of interesting commandline commands. I like the Twitter feeds on their site http://www.commandlinefu.com/ http://www.commandlinefu.com/ . For example, you can subscribe to the feed http://twitter.com/commandlinefu10 http://twitter.com/commandlinefu10 which posts a command if it gets at least 10 upvotes.
- sequoia 15y ago
  > For others who have not seen commandlinefu.com, it's a collection of interesting commandline commands. ooohh thank you. Without that context I was wondering what the heck this tool was supposed to do.
jhsu 15y ago
Great stuff on commandlinefu. Thanks for the really helpful tool to find the info where you want to use it.
revorad 15y ago
This is utter genius. Thank you so much. When I try the fu 1 command, I get an invalid index number error.
- samirahmed 15y ago
  Please see https://github.com/samirahmed/fu/issues/1 https://github.com/samirahmed/fu/issues/1 I have outlined a set of possible problems/fixes!
makmanalp 15y ago
This is awesome, but I keep getting this when I try to copy to clipboard: mehmet@cake:~/fu$ fu query wiki 1 # Query Wikipedia via console over DNS dig +short txt <keyword>.wp.dg.cx 2 # Query Wikipedia via console over DNS mwiki () { blah=`echo $@ | sed -e 's/ /_/g'`; dig +short txt $blah.wp.dg.cx; } 3 # Query Wikipedia via console over DNS mwiki() { dig +short txt "$*".wp.dg.cx; } 488ms total:6 mehmet@cake:~/fu$ fu 1 fu: Error invalid index number!
- Psyonic 15y ago
  It's fu -c 1
Karunamon 15y ago
Amazing tool (definitely one of those "Why the heck didnt I think of that?!" things) and an amazing site too. Commandlinefu should be in everyone's bookmarks.
grisha 15y ago
Cool stuff. I am curious how hard it would be to implement something like fu -e #, so you can just pass desired arguments, instead of manually tweaking command from clipboard.
- samirahmed 15y ago
  not sure what you mean here? -e would execute the command ? or would alter/edit the command?
  - grisha 15y ago
    execute command.
novakinblood 15y ago
Sorry to be picky, but there's a typo on the site. The author of the site wrote "harverst" instead of "harvest" in the second sentence after "Overview". It kind of sticks out to me.
pkrumins 15y ago
Also see this article series of mine called 'Top 10 One-Liners From CommandLineFu Explained'. Top one-liners 1-10: http://www.catonmat.net/blog/top-ten-one-liners-from-commandlinefu-explained/ http://www.catonmat.net/blog/top-ten-one-liners-from-command... Top one-liners 11-20: http://www.catonmat.net/blog/the-next-ten-one-liners-from-commandlinefu-explained/ http://www.catonmat.net/blog/the-next-ten-one-liners-from-co... Top one-liners 21-30: http://www.catonmat.net/blog/another-ten-one-liners-from-commandlinefu-explained/ http://www.catonmat.net/blog/another-ten-one-liners-from-com... Top one-liners 31-40: http://www.catonmat.net/blog/yet-another-ten-one-liners-from-commandlinefu-explained/ http://www.catonmat.net/blog/yet-another-ten-one-liners-from...
daenz 15y ago
Great job! It has already proven itself to me: I was doing a diff on an svn repo. Unfortunately, svn diffs are not in color, and being spoiled by git's color diffs, I looked at "svn help diff", but found no color option. A quick "fu color svn" yielded: 1 # Paged, colored svn diff svn diff $* | colordiff | less -r Awesome :)
le_isms 15y ago
Very cool. I would love to see some verification. If you're using one of the commands from commandlinefu, you probably didn't know about it beforehand, and who knows what it could do. edit: Commandlinefu.com -does- have a point system that could help determine valididy, it would be great if the points could be retrieved by Fu, and if you could rate up and down within Fu. Still, doesn't help if a code is ranked 0.
- samirahmed 15y ago
  The '-v' flag enables will give you a verbose output that shows you the votes. The '-o' flag will take you to the comments page of the command so that you can read other users inputs. These are in place to help you make a more educated decision
s_kunk 15y ago
Cool ! I thought it would be an opportunity to share mine too :) I made it few weeks ago and didn't release since yesterday. Enjoy commandlinefffffffuuuuuuuuuuuu: https://github.com/skunk/commandlinef7u12 https://github.com/skunk/commandlinef7u12

106 points by samirahmed 15y ago

mise 15y ago

Really cool, well done. For others who have not seen commandlinefu.com, it's a collection of interesting commandline commands. I like the Twitter feeds on their site http://www.commandlinefu.com/ http://www.commandlinefu.com/ . For example, you can subscribe to the feed http://twitter.com/commandlinefu10 http://twitter.com/commandlinefu10 which posts a command if it gets at least 10 upvotes.

sequoia 15y ago
> For others who have not seen commandlinefu.com, it's a collection of interesting commandline commands. ooohh thank you. Without that context I was wondering what the heck this tool was supposed to do.

jhsu 15y ago

Great stuff on commandlinefu. Thanks for the really helpful tool to find the info where you want to use it.

revorad 15y ago

This is utter genius. Thank you so much. When I try the fu 1 command, I get an invalid index number error.

samirahmed 15y ago
Please see https://github.com/samirahmed/fu/issues/1 https://github.com/samirahmed/fu/issues/1 I have outlined a set of possible problems/fixes!

makmanalp 15y ago

This is awesome, but I keep getting this when I try to copy to clipboard: mehmet@cake:~/fu$ fu query wiki 1 # Query Wikipedia via console over DNS dig +short txt <keyword>.wp.dg.cx 2 # Query Wikipedia via console over DNS mwiki () { blah=`echo $@ | sed -e 's/ /_/g'`; dig +short txt $blah.wp.dg.cx; } 3 # Query Wikipedia via console over DNS mwiki() { dig +short txt "$*".wp.dg.cx; } 488ms total:6 mehmet@cake:~/fu$ fu 1 fu: Error invalid index number!

Psyonic 15y ago
It's fu -c 1

Karunamon 15y ago

Amazing tool (definitely one of those "Why the heck didnt I think of that?!" things) and an amazing site too. Commandlinefu should be in everyone's bookmarks.

grisha 15y ago

Cool stuff. I am curious how hard it would be to implement something like fu -e #, so you can just pass desired arguments, instead of manually tweaking command from clipboard.

samirahmed 15y ago
not sure what you mean here? -e would execute the command ? or would alter/edit the command?
- grisha 15y ago
  execute command.

novakinblood 15y ago

Sorry to be picky, but there's a typo on the site. The author of the site wrote "harverst" instead of "harvest" in the second sentence after "Overview". It kind of sticks out to me.

pkrumins 15y ago

Also see this article series of mine called 'Top 10 One-Liners From CommandLineFu Explained'. Top one-liners 1-10: http://www.catonmat.net/blog/top-ten-one-liners-from-commandlinefu-explained/ http://www.catonmat.net/blog/top-ten-one-liners-from-command... Top one-liners 11-20: http://www.catonmat.net/blog/the-next-ten-one-liners-from-commandlinefu-explained/ http://www.catonmat.net/blog/the-next-ten-one-liners-from-co... Top one-liners 21-30: http://www.catonmat.net/blog/another-ten-one-liners-from-commandlinefu-explained/ http://www.catonmat.net/blog/another-ten-one-liners-from-com... Top one-liners 31-40: http://www.catonmat.net/blog/yet-another-ten-one-liners-from-commandlinefu-explained/ http://www.catonmat.net/blog/yet-another-ten-one-liners-from...

daenz 15y ago

Great job! It has already proven itself to me: I was doing a diff on an svn repo. Unfortunately, svn diffs are not in color, and being spoiled by git's color diffs, I looked at "svn help diff", but found no color option. A quick "fu color svn" yielded: 1 # Paged, colored svn diff svn diff $* | colordiff | less -r Awesome :)

le_isms 15y ago

Very cool. I would love to see some verification. If you're using one of the commands from commandlinefu, you probably didn't know about it beforehand, and who knows what it could do. edit: Commandlinefu.com -does- have a point system that could help determine valididy, it would be great if the points could be retrieved by Fu, and if you could rate up and down within Fu. Still, doesn't help if a code is ranked 0.

samirahmed 15y ago
The '-v' flag enables will give you a verbose output that shows you the votes. The '-o' flag will take you to the comments page of the command so that you can read other users inputs. These are in place to help you make a more educated decision

s_kunk 15y ago

Cool ! I thought it would be an opportunity to share mine too :) I made it few weeks ago and didn't release since yesterday. Enjoy commandlinefffffffuuuuuuuuuuuu: https://github.com/skunk/commandlinef7u12 https://github.com/skunk/commandlinef7u12