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# check if a proposed addition (prepend) to your $PATH will shadow anything
# outputs the absolute paths to the executable to be shadowed, below a heading of the new path entry that will shadow it
# e.g. NEW_PATH_ELEMENTS="/home/me/git/suspicious_package/bin:/home/me/git/iffy_repo/bin"
for f in $(echo "$NEW_PATH_ELEMENTS" | tr : ' '); do
    echo "== $f =="; find -L $f -maxdepth 1 -type f -executable | xargs -I{} basename {} | sort | xargs -I{} which {}
done

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#!/usr/bin/env python3
"""
A very basic CLI remote control for a Roku device

Requires:
ssdp
requests

Written with Python 3.7
"""

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// Convert an A1 Notation column to a zero-based index
// A -> 0, Z -> 25, AA -> 26, AZ -> 51, ZZ -> 701, AAA -> 702, ...

var alpha = 'ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ';

function a1ColIndex(colString) {
    var index = 0;
    var len = colString.length;
    var colLetter, numval;
    for (var i = 0; i < len-1; i++) {

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import sys
import locale
from datetime import datetime, timedelta

locale.setlocale(locale.LC_ALL, 'en_US.utf-8')

def _thou_sep(num):
    return locale.format('%d', int(num), grouping=True)

def _plural(num, word):

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## get info about the other end of a unix socket!

# shown at PyCon 2016 Talk "File descriptors, Unix sockets and other POSIX wizardry"
# by Christian Heimes
# condensed by me

import socket, struct

# this is not defined in any python version I have readily at hand
# taken from /usr/include/asm-generic/socket.h on debian 7.9

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import subprocess
import shlex

str_types = [str, unicode]

def runCmd(cmd, *args, **kwargs):
    kwargs['stdout'] = kwargs.get('stdout', subprocess.PIPE)
    kwargs['stderr'] = kwargs.get('stderr', subprocess.PIPE)
    stdin = ''
    if 'stdin' in kwargs and type(kwargs['stdin']) in str_types:

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#!/usr/bin/perl -w

# USAGE:
#
# /RSAY <text>
#  - same as /say, but outputs a coloured text
#
# /RME <text>
#  - same as /me, but outputs a coloured text
#

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#!/usr/bin/perl -w

# USAGE:
#
# /RSAY <text>
#  - same as /say, but outputs a coloured text
#
# /RME <text>
#  - same as /me, but outputs a coloured text
#