This one command will fetch and display the latest sensex figure in Linux. This command basically downloads a page, locates a specific line, and then extract just the necessary portion from it. I am sure you could find other uses for this method.

curl -s "http://money.rediff.com/money/jsp/markets_home.jsp" |grep ''|head -n1|perl -pe 's/^.+\">([\d\,\.]+)<\/TD>.+$/\1/i;'

Find the meaning of a word from dict using curl. System must be online for this to work.

curl dict://dict.org/d:word

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Using PHP’s Curl functions even if the net is accessible only thru a proxy. This is the only way curl can be used if you use GoDaddy’s hosting.

<?php
$ch = curl_init("http://rss.news.yahoo.com/rss/topstories");

curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HEADER, false);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_PROXY, "http://192.168.0.15:80");
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_PROXYPORT, 80);
//curl_setopt ($ch, CURLOPT_PROXYUSERPWD, "username:password");

$data = curl_exec ($ch);
curl_close($ch);
print $data;
?>