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pipe-able script to check the existence of a GitHub username; returns 200 if found
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uexists.sh
#!/bin/sh
# Usage: some_command_that_outputs_usernames | uexists.sh
# subject to anonymous API rate limits
xargs -I {} curl -w "%{http_code}\n" -sI -o /dev/null https://api.github.com/users/{}
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