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ignore .DS_Store forever in GIT
With a couple of little commands, you?ll be able to ignore the .DS_Store files forever from your git repositories on mac! The following command will add the .gitignore file to the git configuration git config --global core.excludesfile ~/.gitignore then, the following, will add the .DS_Store to the list echo .DS_Store >> ~/.gitignore

Insert the last argument of the previous command

copy from host1 to host2, through your host
Good if only you have access to host1 and host2, but they have no access to your host (so ncat won't work) and they have no direct access to each other.

Find duplicate UID in /etc/passwd
You can use only awk

Shows the torrent file name along with the trackers url
Replace * with any filename matching glob or an individual filename

Check the package is installed or not. There will show the package name which is installed.
The ^python$ is a package name patten. You can change whatever you want.

Download entire website

Check if a command is available in your system
Usefull to detect if a commad that your script relies upon is properly installed in your box, you can use it as a function function is_program_installed() { type "$1" >/dev/null } Invoke it and check the execution code is_program_installed "dialog" if [ ! $? -eq 0 ]; then echo "dialog is not installed" exit 1 fi

To print a specific line from a file
You can get one specific line during any procedure. Very interesting to be used when you know what line you want.

Run the last command as root
Same as `sudo !!`. If you do not have permission to be sudo or sudo does not installed on your system, you can use this.


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