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Print trending topics on Twitter
This is sample output - yours may be different.
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wget http://search.twitter.com/trends.json -O - --quiet | ruby -rubygems -e 'require "json";require "yaml"; puts YAML.dump(JSON.parse($stdin.gets))'

unixmonkey842 · 2009-02-15 21:24:06 13
Graphical tree of sub-directories

Prints a graphical directory tree from your current directory Show Sample Output
This is sample output - yours may be different.
```
|-Comics
   |---Anomaly
   |---Cyanide & Happiness
   |---Dilbert
   |---Misc
   |---Pearls Before Swine
   |---Russell's Teapot
   |---xkcd
   |-Docks
   |---Niqu Dock 1.2
   |-----2D Style
   |-----3D Style
   |-----Defaults
   |---Rounded Reflection
   |-Ebooks
   |---The Guitarist's Guide to Composing and Improvising
```
64

ls -R | grep ":$" | sed -e 's/:$//' -e 's/[^-][^\/]*\//--/g' -e 's/^/ /' -e 's/-/|/'

unixmonkey842 · 2009-02-15 20:43:21 33

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