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Downloads Github's recommended .gitignore for the specified language and prints it to stdout
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gh-gitignore
#!/usr/bin/env bash
# Downloads Github's recommended .gitignore for the specified language and prints it to stdout.
#
# When starting a project:
# gh-gitignore Swift > .gitignore
set -euo pipefail
E_BADARGS=85
if [ $# -ne 1 ]; then
echo "Usage: $(basename $0) language" >&2
echo "Downloads Github's recommended .gitignore for the specified language" >&2
exit $E_BADARGS
fi
language="$1"
curl https://raw.githubusercontent.com/github/gitignore/main/${language}.gitignore
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