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Check whether IPv6 is enabled
Checks whether IPv6 is enabled system-wide by reading from procfs.

Do some learning...
I like it sorted... 2> /dev/null was also needless, since our pipes already select stdin, only.

use xxd to create the wake on lan magicpacket and write to pcap file
just set macdst to the mac address of the system you wish to wake up, the macsrc is optional but helps use tcpreplay to broadcast or wireshark to view

chmod - change file permissions of a file to be similar of another

Generate a sequence of numbers.

Number file

finds the c files with lines containing 'mcs', in the folders under the current folder

find your release version of your ubuntu / debian distro

Automator Bash script to create Clean zips in MacOS Finder without __MACOSX metadata
Finder compresses to ZIP but always includes extraneous metadata files (__MACOSX and .DS_Store) files and folders that may confuse other programs. One alternative is creating them and then editing the ZIP. This can work standalone or in an automator script accepting multiple selections (files or folders) and creating one zip per argument/selected file without that metada.

Compare two CSV files, discarding any repeated lines
The value for the sort command's -k argument is the column in the CSV file to sort on. In this example, it sorts on the second column. You must use some form of the sort command in order for uniq to work properly.


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