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Convert JSON to YAML
Requires installing json2yaml via npm: npm install -g json2yaml (can also pipe from stdin) Ref: https://www.npmjs.com/package/json2yaml

diff 2 remote files

Check a server is up. If it isn't mail me.
This version uses netcat to check a particular service.

Download a file and uncompress it while it downloads
This will uncompress the file while it's being downloaded which makes it much faster

Automatically skip bad songs in your MPD playlist.
Case insensitive. Also you can pull in the songs from a blacklist, one per line - while :; do (mpc current | grep -i -f blacklist.txt && mpc next); sleep 5; done

Binary clock
cryptic version

Convert JSON to YAML
Requires installing json2yaml via npm: npm install -g json2yaml (can also pipe from stdin) Ref: https://www.npmjs.com/package/json2yaml

copy public key

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