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This command recursively finds every file matching the glob pattern *.* (name.extension) in the working directory, excluding child directories whose names start with ..

This is useful for skipping various VCS directories, for instance.

find . -type d -path './.*' -prune -o -type f -name '*.*' -print

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Idea for a Markdown preprocessor

Feature master list:

• Table of contents
  • {{toc}}?
  • ATX headers
  • two-pass processing for consistent stream
  • Ignore # in code blocks, quotes
• File transclusion

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DRIVER_IRQL_NOT_LESS_OR_EQUAL is a famous Blue Screen of Death error, often caused by a bad driver somewhere. The Internet is awash with reports of variants of this error.

This particular variant, L1C63x64.sys, was an occasional occurrence for me on Windows 7, but seemingly only while torrenting.

Upgrading to Windows 10 turned the error from occasional to frequent within the first few days,

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The following command generates a 20 character password from all visible ASCII characters (94) except '"|\ (90), which are problematic in some contexts, like embedding in (unversioned) source code, for approximately [128 bits of entropy (90²⁰ = 1.22e+39)][math]:

$ < /dev/urandom tr -dc [:graph:] | tr -d \|\\\'\\\\\" | head -c20 | xsel --clipboard 

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• Overview
  • Regular usage
  • Situational usage
    • Generating key pairs
    • Transferring public keys
    • Changing a passphrase without modifying a key
• Configuration
• Questions
  • Which algorithm should I use?
• Do I need a passphrase?

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#!/bin/sh
# Lists human readable and octal file permissions for the specified files.
# If no files are specified, lso is invoked for all files in the current
# directory.

arg="$@"
[ "$arg" = '' ] && arg="*"

stat -c '%A %a %n' $arg

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#!/bin/bash

set -o errexit

if ! ps -e | grep -q spotify
then
    spotify > /dev/null 2>&1 &
fi

if ! ps -e | grep -q blockify-ui

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#!/bin/bash

set -o errexit
set -o nounset

[[ $# -eq 1 ]] || {
    echo "usage: $0 <author>"
    exit 1
}

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Server list at https://www.ipvanish.com/api/servers.geojson

No CORS. Copy the JavaScript functions below into the console and confirm. Copy all the (JSON) output in the browser window into the console, into a variable named e.g. everything. Copy the final line, then play arround with the all array.

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#!/bin/bash
#
# Restores the branchnames of all merged branches
# between two revisions,
# and prints them to stdout.
#
# If the end revision is omitted it defaults to HEAD.
#
# If a branchname already exists,
# it is not moved,