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Useful Shell Commands

1. Compare files in two directories

This will allow you to compare two directories while ignoring file extensions. A good use case is when you have one directory of AIFF audio files and another directory of those same audio files which were converted to another audio format, such as FLAC. This will allow you to indentify if any are missing.

diff -u <(cd "{DIR 1}" && printf '%s\n' **/*(D:r)) \
        <(cd "{DIR 2}" && printf '%s\n' **/*(D:r))

2. Displays paths in $PATH, each on separate line

This is an easy way to see each path within the $PATH environment variable.

tr ':' '\n' <<< "$PATH"
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