Commands by sixtus (2)
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You need curl.. and a Mac of course.
-7curl -s -u user:password http://twitter.com/statuses/friends_timeline.rss | grep title | sed -ne 's/<\/*title>//gp' | head -n 4 | say -v Bruce -
This is not actually a command, it's just a keyboard shortchut. But a very useful one. Show Sample Output
6ctrl + r
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