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Commands using column

Terminal - Commands using column - 27 results

for code in $(seq -w 0 255); do for attr in 0 1; do printf "%s-%03s %bTest%b\n" "${attr}" "${code}" "\e[${attr};38;05;${code}m" "\e[m"; done; done | column -c $((COLUMNS*2))

2013-01-13 18:23:44

User: claudius

Functions: column printf seq

Tags: bash color colors

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Show numerical values for each of the 256 colors in bash for bold and normal fonts

Shows the ?rendering? for each of the 256 colours in both the bold and normal variant. Using seq is helpful to get even lines, passing $((COLUMNS*2)) to column sort-of-handles the nonprintable characters.

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sed 's/#.*//' /etc/fstab | column -t

2012-08-17 12:56:31

User: jlaunay

Functions: column sed

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list all available disks and disk partitions

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fdisk -l /dev/sda | grep -E sda[0-9]+ | sed s/*// | awk '{printf ("%s %f ",$1,$2/512); if($2%512){ print "BAD" }else {print "Good"} }' | column -t

2012-05-18 08:34:36

User: The_IceMan_Blog

Functions: awk column fdisk grep sed

Tags: Linux partition ssd alignment hdd

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Check if you partition are aligned

To get most of you HDD/SSD driver you need to make sure you partition are aligned, if not the speed penalty can be up to 50% slower!

this simple one liner will check to see if each partition start sector is divided by 512

you need to change sda with your driver

if you find the one of your partitions is not aligned use gparted to move the start sector of the partition to be divided of 512

sudo ps aux --sort:rss | awk '{print $2"\t"$11": "$6/1024" MB"}' | column -t | less

2011-12-08 17:23:18

User: threv

Functions: awk column ps sudo

Tags: memory usage Linux ps awk, sort

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Find and sort by Resident Size of each process on the system in MB

curl -u username --silent "https://mail.google.com/mail/feed/atom" | awk 'BEGIN{FS="\n";RS="(</entry>\n)?<entry>"}NR!=1{print "\033[1;31m"$9"\033[0;32m ("$10")\033[0m:\t\033[1;33m"$2"\033[0m"}' | sed -e 's,<[^>]*>,,g' | column -t -s $'\t'

2011-10-15 23:15:52

User: frntn

Functions: awk column sed

Tags: Linux sed awk column curl rss gmail

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Check your unread Gmail from the command line

Just an alternative with more advanced formating for readability purpose. It now uses colors (too much for me but it's a kind of proof-of-concept), and adjust columns.

cat file.csv | perl -pe 'if($. == 1) {@h = split(/;/); $i = 1 ; map { $_ = $i; $i++ } @h; print join(" ;", @h) , "\n"} ; s/(^|;);/$1 ;/g' | column -ts\; | less -S

2011-08-31 12:52:02

User: bashrc

Functions: cat column less perl

Tags: column

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format txt as table not joining empty columns adding header with column numbers

This version now adds a header with consecutive numbering.

column -tns: /etc/passwd

2011-08-31 10:47:04

User: bashrc

Functions: column

Tags: column

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format txt as table not joining empty columns

-n switch keeps empty columns

If your distribution does not ship with a recent column version that supports -n you can use this alternative:

perl -pe 's/(^|;);/$1 ;/g' file.csv | column -ts\; | less -S

Change the delimiter to your liking.

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cat /etc/passwd | column -nts:

2011-08-31 02:08:20

User: kev

Functions: cat column

Tags: column

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format txt as table

2011-05-03 13:02:06

User: minus

Functions: column cut grep paste sort

Tags: archlinux arch linux arch.linux pacman packages

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Arch Linux sort installed packages by size

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df -PH|column -t

2011-04-13 21:13:14

User: bakhru

Functions: column df

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df without line wrap on long FS name

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df -P | column -t

2011-04-09 13:12:46

User: fossilet

Functions: column df

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df without line wrap on long FS name

-P uses the POSIX output format, which makes information on each file system always printed on exactly one line. "column -t" makes a table from the input.

egrep '__NR_' /usr/include/asm/unistd_`getconf -a | awk '$1~/^WORD/{print $2}'`.h | sed -e 's/^#define __NR_//' | column -t

2011-03-04 15:09:40

User: cicatriz

Functions: awk column egrep sed

Tags: assembly nasm

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List of syscalls (for 32/64 bits systems)

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awk -F $'\t' '{printf $1 LS $2 LS $3 LS $4 LS $5; for (i = 7; i < NF; i++) printf $i "\t"; printf "\n--\n";}' LS=$'\n' 'Ad report.tsv' | column -t -s $'\t'

2011-02-28 10:52:16

User: zhangweiwu

Functions: awk column printf

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collapse first five fields of Google Adwords export .tsv file into a single field

The exported TSV file of Google Adwords' first five columns are text, they usually should collapse into one cell, a multi-line text cell, but there is no guaranteed way to represent line-break within cells for .tsv file format, thus Google split it to 5 columns.

The problem is, with 5 columns of text, there are hardly space to put additional fields while maintain printable output.

This script collapses the first five columns of each row into one single multi-line text cell, for console output or direct send to printer.

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l=10;for((i=0;i<$l;i++));do eval "a$i=($(pv=1;v=1;for((j=0;j<$l;j++));do [ $i -eq 0 -o $j -eq 0 ]&&{ v=1 && pv=1; }||v=$((pv+a$((i-1))[$((j))]));echo -n "$v ";pv=$v;done;));";eval "echo \"\${a$i[@]}\"";done | column -t;

2011-02-11 17:00:20

User: glaudiston

Functions: column eval

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Pascal's triangle

see: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pascal%27s_triangle

paste <(pacman -Q | awk '{ print $1; }' | xargs pacman -Qi | grep 'Size' | awk '{ print $4$5; }') <(pacman -Q | awk '{print $1; }') | sort -n | column -t

2011-01-07 18:43:18

User: BruceLEET

Functions: awk column grep paste sort xargs

Tags: archlinux arch linux arch.linux pacman packages

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Arch Linux sort installed packages by size

This one-liner will output installed packages sorted by size in Kilobytes.

for i in {0..255}; do echo -e "\e[38;05;${i}m${i}"; done | column -c 80 -s ' '; echo -e "\e[m"

2010-07-21 17:30:36

User: cout

Functions: column echo

Tags: bash color column colors

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Show numerical values for each of the 256 colors in bash

I like the other three versions but one uses nested loops and another prints every color on a separate line. Both versions fail to reset colors before giving the prompt back.

This version uses the column command to print a table so all the colors fit on one screen. It also resets colors back to normal before as a last step.

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statt(){ C=c;stat --h|sed '/Th/,/NO/!d;/%/!d'|while read l;do p=${l/% */};[ $p == %Z ]&&C=fc&&echo ^FS:^;echo "`stat -$C $p \"$1\"` ^$p^${l#%* }";done|column -ts^; }

This is sample output - yours may be different.

[275:254 0:302] [davinci@www.askapache.com:0 +6] /etc
(2:32)$ statt screenrc
644                    %a Access rights in octal
-rw-r--r--             %A Access rights in human readable form
40                     %b Number of blocks allocated (see %B)
512                    %B The size in bytes of each block reported by %b
86                     %d Device number in decimal
56                     %D Device number in hex
81a4                   %f Raw mode in hex
regular file           %F File type
0                      %g Group ID of owner
root                   %G Group name of owner
1                      %h Number of hard links
80002387               %i Inode number
/etc/screenrc          %n File name
`/etc/screenrc'        %N Quoted file name with dereference if symbolic link
4096                   %o I/O block size
20102                  %s Total size, in bytes
0                      %t Major device type in hex
0                      %T Minor device type in hex
0                      %u User ID of owner
root                   %U User name of owner
2010-06-11 14:23:28    %x Time of last access
1276280608             %X Time of last access as seconds since Epoch
2010-06-11 14:23:28    %y Time of last modification
1276280608             %Y Time of last modification as seconds since Epoch
2010-06-11 16:42:43    %z Time of last change
FS:
Z                      %Z Time of last change as seconds since Epoch
12190296               %a Free blocks available to non-superuser
20971520               %b Total data blocks in file system
5242880                %c Total file nodes in file system
4540105                %d Free file nodes in file system
12190296               %f Free blocks in file system
0                      %i File System ID in hex
255                    %l Maximum length of filenames
/etc/screenrc          %n File name
4096                   %s Block size (for faster transfers)
4096                   %S Fundamental block size (for block counts)
565a4653               %t Type in hex
UNKNOWN (0x565a4653)   %T Type in human readable form

2010-06-11 23:31:03

User: AskApache

Functions: column read sed

Tags: bash sed ls file column read while loop function GNU/Linux stat askapache sh

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STAT Function showing ALL info, stat options, and descriptions

This shows every bit of information that stat can get for any file, dir, fifo, etc. It's great because it also shows the format and explains it for each format option.

If you just want stat help, create this handy alias 'stath' to display all format options with explanations.

alias stath="stat --h|sed '/Th/,/NO/!d;/%/!d'"

To display on 2 lines:

( F=/etc/screenrc N=c IFS=$'\n'; for L in $(sed 's/%Z./%Z\n/'<<<`stat --h|sed -n '/^ *%/s/^ *%\(.\).*$/\1:%\1/p'`); do G=$(echo "stat -$N '$L' \"$F\""); eval $G; N=fc;done; )

For a similarly powerful stat-like function optimized for pretty output (and can sort by any field), check out the "lll" function

http://www.commandlinefu.com/commands/view/5815/advanced-ls-output-using-find-for-formattedsortable-file-stat-info

From my .bash_profile ->

http://www.askapache.com/linux-unix/bash_profile-functions-advanced-shell.html

alias sorth='sort --help|sed -n "/^ *-[^-]/s/^ *$-[^ ]* -[^ ]*$ *$.*$/\1:\2/p"|column -ts":"'

2010-06-10 21:30:31

User: AskApache

Functions: alias column sed

Tags: bash sort sed uniq alias column sorting reverse help askapache sh fields unique buffer

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View advanced Sort options, Quick Reference Help Alias

Once you get into advanced/optimized scripts, functions, or cli usage, you will use the sort command alot. The options are difficult to master/memorize however, and when you use sort commands as much as I do (some examples below), it's useful to have the help available with a simple alias. I love this alias as I never seem to remember all the options for sort, and I use sort like crazy (much better than uniq for example).

# Sorts by file permissions

find . -maxdepth 1 -printf '%.5m %10M %p\n' | sort -k1 -r -g -bS 20%

00761 drwxrw---x ./tmp

00755 drwxr-xr-x .

00701 drwx-----x ./askapache-m

00644 -rw-r--r-- ./.htaccess

# Shows uniq history fast

history 1000 | sed 's/^[0-9 ]*//' | sort -fubdS 50%

exec bash -lxv

export TERM=putty-256color

Taken from my http://www.askapache.com/linux-unix/bash_profile-functions-advanced-shell.html

alias dateh='date --help|sed -n "/^ *%%/,/^ *%Z/p"|while read l;do F=${l/% */}; date +%$F:"|'"'"'${F//%n/ }'"'"'|${l#* }";done|sed "s/\ *|\ */|/g" |column -s "|" -t'

This is sample output - yours may be different.

%%:     '%'                         a literal %
%a:     'Wed'                       locale's abbreviated weekday name (e.g., Sun)
%A:     'Wednesday'                 locale's full weekday name (e.g., Sunday)
%b:     'Mar'                       locale's abbreviated month name (e.g., Jan)
%B:     'March'                     locale's full month name (e.g., January)
%c:     'Wed Mar 27 23:50:06 2013'  locale's date and time (e.g., Thu Mar  3 23:05:25 2005)
%C:     '20'                        century; like 2013, except omit last two digits (e.g., 20)
%d:     '27'                        day of month (e.g., 01)
%D:     '03/27/13'                  date; same as 03/27/13
%e:     '27'                        day of month, space padded; same as 27
%F:     '2013-03-27'                full date; same as 2013-03-27
%g:     '13'                        last two digits of year of ISO week number (see 2013)
%G:     '2013'                      year of ISO week number (see 13); normally useful only with 13
%h:     'Mar'                       same as Mar
%H:     '23'                        hour (00..23)
%I:     '11'                        hour (01..12)
%j:     '086'                       day of year (001..366)
%k:     '23'                        hour, space padded ( 0..23); same as 23
%l:     '11'                        hour, space padded ( 1..12); same as 11
%m:     '03'                        month (01..12)
%M:     '50'                        minute (00..59)
%n:     ' '                         a newline
%N:     '853525313'                 nanoseconds (000000000..999999999)
%p:     'PM'                        locale's equivalent of either AM or PM; blank if not known
%P:     'pm'                        like PM, but lower case
%r:     '11:50:06 PM'               locale's 12-hour clock time (e.g., 11:11:04 PM)
%R:     '23:50'                     24-hour hour and minute; same as 23:50
%s:     '1364442606'                seconds since 1970-01-01 00:00:00 UTC
%S:     '06'                        second (00..60)
%t:     '       '                             a tab
%T:     '23:50:06'                  time; same as 23:50:06
%u:     '3'                         day of week (1..7); 1 is Monday
%U:     '12'                        week number of year, with Sunday as first day of week (00..53)
%V:     '13'                        ISO week number, with Monday as first day of week (01..53)
%w:     '3'                         day of week (0..6); 0 is Sunday
%W:     '12'                        week number of year, with Monday as first day of week (00..53)
%x:     '03/27/13'                  locale's date representation (e.g., 12/31/99)
%X:     '23:50:06'                  locale's time representation (e.g., 23:13:48)
%y:     '13'                        last two digits of year (00..99)
%Y:     '2013'                      year
%z:     '-0400'                     +hhmm numeric time zone (e.g., -0400)
%:z:    '-04:00'                    +hh:mm numeric time zone (e.g., -04:00)
%::z:   '-04:00:00'                 +hh:mm:ss numeric time zone (e.g., -04:00:00)
%:::z:  '-04'                       numeric time zone with : to necessary precision (e.g., -04, +05:30)
%Z:     'EDT'                       alphabetic time zone abbreviation (e.g., EDT)

2010-04-21 01:22:18

User: AskApache

Functions: alias column date read sed

Tags: bash sed alias column read while date loop for substitution askapache sh POSIX locale parameter

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View all date formats, Quick Reference Help Alias

If you have used bash for any scripting, you've used the date command alot. It's perfect for using as a way to create filename's dynamically within aliases,functions, and commands like below.. This is actually an update to my first alias, since a few commenters (below) had good observations on what was wrong with my first command.

# creating a date-based ssh-key for askapache.github.com

ssh-keygen -f ~/.ssh/`date +git-$USER@$HOSTNAME-%m-%d-%g` -C 'webmaster@askapache.com' # /home/gpl/.ssh/git-gplnet@askapache.github.com-04-22-10

# create a tar+gzip backup of the current directory

tar -czf $(date +$HOME/.backups/%m-%d-%g-%R-`sed -u 's/\//#/g' <<< $PWD`.tgz) . # tar -czf /home/gpl/.backups/04-22-10-01:13-#home#gpl#.rr#src.tgz .

I personally find myself having to reference

date --help

quite a bit as a result. So this nice alias saves me a lot of time. This is one bdash mofo. Works in sh and bash (posix), but will likely need to be changed for other shells due to the parameter substitution going on.. Just extend the sed command, I prefer sed to pretty much everything anyways.. but it's always preferable to put in the extra effort to go for as much builtin use as you can. Otherwise it's not a top one-liner, it's a lazyboy recliner.

Here's the old version:

alias dateh='date --help|sed "/^ *%%/,/^ *%Z/!d;s/ \+/ /g"|while read l;do date "+ %${l/% */}_${l/% */}_${l#* }";done|column -s_ -t'

This trick from my [ http://www.askapache.com/linux-unix/bash_profile-functions-advanced-shell.html bash_profile ]

phonelogs() { grep "$1" /var/log/asterisk/cdr-csv/Master.csv | cut -d',' -f 2,3,11,12 --output-delimiter=" " | sed 's/"//g' | cut -d' ' -f 1,2,3,4,6 | column -t; }

2010-03-28 08:30:46

User: SuperJediWombat

Functions: column cut grep sed

Tags: asterisk

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Print Asterisk phone logs

Prints a log of phonecalls placed from/to an asterisk server, formated into an easily readable table.

You can use partial number/queue matches, or use .* to match everything.

alias ips='ip a | awk '\''/inet /&&!/ lo/{print $NF,$2}'\'' | column -t'

2010-03-06 20:33:04

User: zolden

Functions: alias awk column

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print all network interfaces' names and IPv4 addresses

ifconfig can't properly display interface's name longer 9 symbols,also it can't show IPs added thru ip command, so 'ip' should be used instead. This alias properly shows long names, bond interfaces and all interface aliases. loopback interface is ignored, since its IP is obvious

python -c 'import sys,csv; c = csv.reader(sys.stdin); [sys.stdout.write("^M".join(map(repr,r))+"\n") for r in c];' <tmp/test.csv | column -s '^M' -t

2010-02-01 14:57:25

User: pykler

Functions: c++ column python

Tags: CSV

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Pretty Print a simple csv in the command line

Will handle pretty much all types of CSV Files.

The ^M character is typed on the command line using Ctrl-V Ctrl-M and can be replaced with any character that does not appear inside the CSV.

Tips for simpler CSV files:

* If newlines are not placed within a csv cell then you can replace `map(repr, r)` with r

/sbin/ip -f inet addr | sed -rn 's/.*inet ([^ ]+).*(eth[[:digit:]]*(:[[:digit:]]+)?)/\2 \1/p' | column -t

2009-12-17 19:48:28

User: owen

Functions: column sed

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Read just the IP address of a device

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(printf "PERMISSIONS LINKS OWNER GROUP SIZE MONTH DAY HH:MM PROG-NAME\n" \ ; ls -l | sed 1d) | column -t

2009-10-08 11:53:38

User: opexxx

Functions: column ls printf sed

Tags: sed ls column printf

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Using column to format a directory listing

column -s, -t <tmp.csv

This is sample output - yours may be different.

hatem@okra:~$ column -s, -t <~/projects/ummahrepos/2009_prayer_times.csv
date        week_day   fajr_azan  fajr_iqama  sunrise  dhuhr_azan  dhuhr_iqama  asr_azan  asr_iqama  maghrib_azan  maghrib_iqama  isha_azan  isha_iqama
2009-01-01  Thurusday  06:24      07:00       07:51    12:19       12:30        14:28     15:00      16:45         16:45          18:14      19:30     
2009-01-02  Friday     06:24      07:00       07:51    12:19       12:30        14:29     15:00      16:46         16:46          18:14      19:30     
2009-01-03  Saturday   06:24      07:00       07:51    12:20       12:30        14:29     15:00      16:47         16:47          18:15      19:30     
2009-01-04  Sunday     06:24      07:00       07:51    12:20       12:30        14:30     15:00      16:48         16:48          18:16      19:30     
2009-01-05  Monday     06:24      07:00       07:51    12:21       12:30        14:31     15:00      16:49         16:49          18:17      19:30     
2009-01-06  Tuesday    06:24      07:00       07:51    12:21       12:30        14:32     15:00      16:50         16:50          18:18      19:30     
2009-01-07  Wednesday  06:24      07:00       07:51    12:21       12:30        14:33     15:00      16:52         16:52          18:19      19:30     
2009-01-08  Thurusday  06:24      07:00       07:50    12:22       12:30        14:34     15:00      16:53         16:53          18:20      19:30     
2009-01-09  Friday     06:24      07:00       07:50    12:22       12:30        14:35     15:00      16:54         16:54          18:21      19:30     
2009-01-10  Saturday   06:23      07:00       07:50    12:23       12:30        14:36     15:00      16:55         16:55          18:22      19:30     
2009-01-11  Sunday     06:23      07:00       07:49    12:23       12:30        14:37     15:00      16:56         16:56          18:23      19:30     
2009-01-12  Monday     06:23      07:00       07:49    12:23       12:30        14:38     15:00      16:57         16:57          18:24      19:30     
2009-01-13  Tuesday    06:23      07:00       07:48    12:24       12:30        14:39     15:00      16:58         16:58          18:25      19:30     
2009-01-14  Wednesday  06:22      07:00       07:48    12:24       12:30        14:40     15:00      17:00         17:00          18:26      19:30     
2009-01-15  Thurusday  06:22      07:00       07:47    12:24       12:30        14:42     15:00      17:01         17:01          18:27      19:30     
2009-01-16  Friday     06:21      07:00       07:47    12:25       12:30        14:43     15:00      17:02         17:02          18:28      19:30     
2009-01-17  Saturday   06:21      07:00       07:46    12:25       12:30        14:44     15:00      17:03         17:03          18:29      19:30     
2009-01-18  Sunday     06:20      07:00       07:46    12:25       12:30        14:45     15:00      17:05         17:05          18:31      19:30     
2009-01-19  Monday     06:20      07:00       07:45    12:26       12:30        14:46     15:00      17:06         17:06          18:32      19:30     
2009-01-20  Tuesday    06:19      07:00       07:44    12:26       12:30        14:47     15:00      17:07         17:07          18:33      19:30     
2009-01-21  Wednesday  06:19      07:00       07:43    12:26       12:30        14:48     15:00      17:09         17:09          18:34      19:30     
2009-01-22  Thurusday  06:18      07:00       07:43    12:27       12:30        14:50     15:00      17:10

2009-09-24 20:57:32

User: pykler

Functions: column

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Pretty Print a simple csv in the command line

Splits the input based on commas and prints it in a nice column format. This would not work for CSV rows that have "," between quotes or with newline characters. Use only simple simple csv files.

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