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 ## Remote boom
 You can even have a remote boom using config in ~/.boom.remote.conf
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     $ boomr "a sandwich" cheese "mighty fine"
     Boom! cheese in a sandwich is mighty fine. Got it.
 
 e.g. have a shared redis instance in the office for pinging around snippets to
 each others command lines
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     # me:
     $ boomr config ackrc < ~/.ackrc