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Download files from gnome-look.org via CLI

I can download extensions from https://extensions.gnome.org/ or https://cinnamon-spices.linuxmint.com/ using curl. However, I am unable to do it from https://www.gnome-look.org To be specific, I am ...
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cURL url_effective with Hash

If you put this link in a browser: https://unix.stackexchange.com/q/453740#453743 it returns this: https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/453740/installing-busybox-for-ubuntu#453743 However cURL ...
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Using the cURL command, how does one fetch stock data which comes back *without* commas and spaces?

What can I add to the below script so that it fetches the stock data and brings it back WITHOUT any commas and spaces? For example GOOG Outstanding shares is 675,000,000. I desire the output of ...
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Using cURL command-line tool on Mac, how does one fetch stock data which comes back *without* commas? [duplicate]

The below script is not working. cd desktop/quoteUpdate while true do curl-o quotes.txt -s "http://download.finance.yahoo.com/d/quotes.csv?s=goog,aapl&f=sl1" sed -i '.bak' 's/,/ /g' quotes.txt ...
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How to tweet using terminal?

I would like to tweet a message using terminal. I tried something like: curl -u 'TwitterUsername':'TwitterPassword' -d status=”Your Message Here” https://twitter.com/statuses/update.xml but seems ...
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How to format a curl command for a special task?

There is a search page in a form http://example.com/search.php and it sends a search query via POST request. I want to fetch this request via curl command line tool to inspect a POST request. The ...
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