This is not earth-shattering, but I like to listen to the RealAudio version of NPR's All Things Considered. However, I've grown tired of clicking on the web page to fire it up every time. Today I realized I could do this with a simple alias. In my .aliases file I added this:
alias realatc 'curl www.npr.org/atc3.smil >That's all one line, by the way, but it's been shown on two lines to narrow it for display purposes. Add a space after the > sign and enter the text on one row if you're adding this to your .aliases file.
~/Desktop/atc3.smil; open ~/Desktop/atc3.smil'
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