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#!/bin/bash

wget -o wget.log -r -np -nH --cut-dirs=2 -P out/ --show-progress \
    --reject "index.html*" --reject-regex '\?C=.*' \
    https://www.unicode.org/Public/zipped/16.0.0

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PowerShell: Avoiding double-confirm prompts in Cmdlets

A PowerShell Design Pattern: Handling Confirmation Prompts in Cmdlets

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When writing custom PowerShell Cmdlets, a common scenario arises when your Cmdlet has the SupportsShouldProcess = $true attribute set to leverage PowerShell’s -Confirm infrastructure. This attribute enables built-in confirmation prompts that ask the user to verify potentially impactful actions before proceeding.

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git ls-files -z | gxargs -0 dirname | grep -Fxv . | grep -v / |  sort -u | gxargs gdu -h --max-depth 0 | sort -h

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<file> ::= ( <statement> | <comment> | <block> )+
<statement> ::= <anytext>+ "\n"+
<comment> ::= "::" <anytext>+ "\n"+
<block> ::= "(" "\n"+ ( <comment> <statement> | <statement> | <block> )+ ")" "\n"+
<anytext> ::= #"[a-z0-9 ]"
<blockerror> ::= "{" "\n"+ ( <comment> <statement> | <statement> | <block> )+ "}" "\n"+

see https://mdkrajnak.github.io/ebnftest/

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#!/bin/sh

decl_outside="assigned outside a function"

echo "printing from outside: \$decl_outside: value before assignment INSIDE a function: [$decl_outside]"

INSIDE1() {
  echo "printing from INSIDE1(): \$decl_outside: value before assignment by INSIDE1(): [$decl_outside]"
  decl_outside="assigned by INSIDE1()"
  echo "printing from INSIDE1(): \$decl_outside: value after assignment by INSIDE1(): [$decl_outside]"

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#!/bin/sh

SOURCE_URL="https://raw.githubusercontent.com/rupa/z/master/z.sh"
OUTPUT_LOC="$HOME/.z.sh"

usage_doc="Usage: $0 [-h] [-u url] [-o file]
  -h          this help
  -u <url>    download from <url>
                default: $SOURCE_URL
  -o <file>   download to <file>

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Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00

[-HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Folder\shell\cmdhere]

[-HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Directory\Background\shell\cmdhere]

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#!/usr/bin/env python

# Copyright (c) 2019, Giampaolo Rodola', Michael Clark. All rights reserved.
# Use of this source code is governed by a BSD-style license that can be
# found in the LICENSE file. 
# https://github.com/giampaolo/psutil/blob/master/LICENSE

"""
In liu of a 'renice' cmdline utility on Windows.
$ winrenice chrome.exe below

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# Run:
#  sudo apt-get install gnupg-agent
#  sudo apt-get install pinentry-curses
# Edit:
#  $HOME/.gnupg/gpg-agent.conf: 
#   pinentry-program /usr/bin/pinentry-curses
#   default-cache-ttl 28800000
#   max-cache-ttl 28800000
# Edit:
#  $HOME/.subversion/config:

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try
{
    var fso = new ActiveXObject("Scripting.FileSystemObject");
    var shell = new ActiveXObject("WScript.Shell");
    var READ = 1, WRITE = 2, APPEND = 8;
    var TEXT_DEFAULT = -2, TEXT_UNICODE = -1, TEXT_ANSI = 0;

    var argc = WScript.Arguments.Count();
    if (argc < 4)
    {