This script will run check for ubuntu launch once every 5 mins and let you know if there is an launch.
while [ 1 ]; do if [ -z "`curl -I "http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/releases/9.10/release/"|grep "404"`" ]; then kdialog --msgbox "9.10 Released"; exit; fi; sleep 300; done
Useless – but fun – get a random Futurama Quote
curl -Is slashdot.org | egrep '^X-(F|B)' | cut -d \- -f 2
Post to Delicious
curl "https://<username>:<password>@api.del.icio.us/v1/posts/add?&url=[URL]&description=[TITLE]&tags=[TAGS]&replace=no"
This is the command used to post a new task to the nexty GTD tool.
curl --basic --user "binnyva:password" --cookie-jar /tmp/nexty-cookies.txt --data-ascii "task=`echo $@|tr ' ' '+'`&layout=cli" "http://nexty.org/tasks/add.php"
Post a status update to identi.ca using just curl
curl --basic --user binnyva:PASSWORD --data-ascii "status=The new status goes here" http://identi.ca/api/statuses/update.xml
Copy a file to a remote system using FTP with the Curl command…
curl -T filename.txt -u username:password ftp://example.cot/filename.txt
This one command will fetch and display the latest sensex figure in Linux. This command basically downloads a page, locates a specific line, and then extract just the necessary portion from it. I am sure you could find other uses for this method.
curl -s "http://money.rediff.com/money/jsp/markets_home.jsp" |grep ''|head -n1|perl -pe 's/^.+\">([\d\,\.]+)<\/TD>.+$/\1/i;'
28
Sep
Get URL Headers using CURL
Show the headers of an URL using Curl
curl http://example.com -I
25
Sep
Word Meaning from Linux Command Line
Find the meaning of a word from dict using curl. System must be online for this to work.
curl dict://dict.org/d:word
07
Mar
Using PHP’s Curl functions behind a Proxy
Using PHP’s Curl functions even if the net is accessible only thru a proxy. This is the only way curl can be used if you use GoDaddy’s hosting.
<?php
ch = curl_init("http://rss.news.yahoo.com/rss/topstories");
curl_setopt(ch, CURLOPT_HEADER, false);
curl_setopt(ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1);
curl_setopt(ch, CURLOPT_PROXY, "http://192.168.0.15:80");
curl_setopt(ch, CURLOPT_PROXYPORT, 80);
//curl_setopt (ch, CURLOPT_PROXYUSERPWD, "username:password");
data = curl_exec (ch);
curl_close(ch);
printdata;
?>