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colored prompt
It colors the machine name and current directory different colors for easy viewing.

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save date and time for each command in history
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Check syntax of remote ruby file

remove repeated pairs of characters e.g. "xtxtxtxt" will become "xt"
This will remove repeated characters e.g. echo "xtxtxtxt" | sed -ru 's/(..)\1{2,}/\1/g' the output will just be "xt"

Sort files in folders alphabetically
Creates one letter folders in the current directory and moves files with corresponding initial in the folder.

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