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remove all spaces from all files in current folder

Show an application's environment variables

RELINK a lot of broken symlinks - FIX broken symlinks after rsync site to new server
After you run this script, you can check status for broken symlink with this command: find -L . -type l

Download all images from a 4chan thread
First (and only) argument should be a 4chan thread URL.

Get the Volume labels all bitlocker volumes had before being encrypted
Get information of volume labels of bitlocker volumes, even if they are encrypted and locked (no access to filesystem, no password provided). Note that the volume labels can have spaces, but only if you name then before encryption. Renaming a bitlocker partition after being encrypted does not have the same effect as doing it before.

Better git diff, word delimited and colorized
Define a git alias then git dcolor

Get windows IPv4 and nothing else
May be useful to get user's ip address over the phone, as users struggle to read through a long ipconfig result.

To get the CPU temperature continuously on the desktop
There is no need for variables. I also added sleep to reduce cpu usage, however I didn't test it.

Force the script to be started as root
Place this code at the beginning of your script to ensure that it can only be executed by the root.

Monitor all DNS queries made by Firefox Mac OS X version


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