Check internet proxy with curl command on Linux

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When your services must talk to the Internet proxy to go out of your secured networks, how can you verify that proxy being effective? In this post, I am going…

pbcopy and pbpaste with Terminal in MacOS

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The MacOS shell is very powerful to let you solve all your problems without making use of graphical tools. However, I am pretty sure an awful lot of users are…

Add git branch name to bash prompt

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By default, git won’t display branch name to terminal prompt. To know which branch you are in, just run git branch command. However, if you want to customise how to…

How to export environment variables defined in a file

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Using environment variables in modern applications is very common https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/79064/how-to-export-variables-from-a-file https://unix.stackexchange.com/a/79084/30988 set -a . ./tmp.txt set +a

Create Symbolic Links on Windows

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Your Python codes store and resident in many places on your computer. Is this a bit messed up to remember which Python directory you are looking for, isn’t it? On…

Use PowerShell to Set Environment Variables

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What Are Environment Variables? Two fundamental components of any computer programming language are variables and constants. Like independent variables in a mathematical equation, these take on values that change the results of the…

See cluster resources usage with kubectl command

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Monitoring resources is among the significantly important tasks of an engineer working with Kubernetes. In the K8s ecosystem, we can find a range of tools and software allow us to…

How to append text to a system file via terminal with sudo command

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Working with Unix-based systems, I have gradually become sluggish to open an editor and tweak something in a file. Especially, system files must only be allowed by a superuser to…

How to check size of a directory via Terminal in MacOS

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Sometimes we want to have a quick check the size of a specific directory in your current place from the terminal where you are working. Instead of opening Finder application…

Create shortcuts for commands in Linux

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