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Coping files, excluding certain files
Preserve file structure when coping and exclude some file o dir patterns

Remove security limitations from PDF documents using ghostscript (for Windows)
#4345 also works under windows

openssl Generate Self Signed SSL Certifcate
generating self signed ssl certificate to use in dovecot postfix nginx Self signed certificates can be used for private encryptions between server and client and must be manually accepted on browser/ client

Do a command but skip recording it in the bash command history
Note the extra space before the command (I had to put it as an underscore since the website eats up preceding spaces). That's all it takes. Now if you check your history with "$ history", it wont show up.

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Check if your desired password is already available in haveibeenpwnd database. This command uses the API provided by HIBP

Get AWS temporary credentials ready to export based on a MFA virtual appliance
You might want to secure your AWS operations requiring to use a MFA token. But then to use API or tools, you need to pass credentials generated with a MFA token. This commands asks you for the MFA code and retrieves these credentials using AWS Cli. To print the exports, you can use: `awk '{ print "export AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID=\"" $1 "\"\n" "export AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY=\"" $2 "\"\n" "export AWS_SESSION_TOKEN=\"" $3 "\"" }'` You must adapt the command line to include: * $MFA_IDis ARN of the virtual MFA or serial number of the physical one * TTL for the credentials

Get all IPs via ifconfig
works on Linux and Solaris. I think it will work on nearly all *nix-es

Deleting Files from svn which are missing

Prints new content of files
Useful to e.g. keep an eye on several logfiles.

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