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Command Line to Get the Stock Quote via Yahoo
Retrieve the current stock price from Yahoo Finance. The output is simply the latest price (which could be delayed). If you want to look up stock for a different company, replace csco with your symbol.

Download all images from a 4chan thread
Useful for ripping wallpaper from 4chan.org/wg

convert a line to a space

Find the package that installed a command

Get current Xorg resolution via xrandr

Use Kernighan & Ritchie coding style in C program

Timer with sound alarm
I'd prefer this one, you have to install espeak to get this running

Migrate Server with rsync
Copies the complete root-dir of a linux server to another one, where the new harddisks formated and mountet. Very useful to migrate a root-server to another one.

Update all packages installed via homebrew

Remove trailing space in vi


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