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Linux: Using ssh-agent

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if you do not always want to enter your private key password/passphrase when using certificate based ssh or scp connections then ssh-agent is your friend 🙂 .
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Linux: Disable assignment of new styled names for network interfaces

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newer Linux distribution do assign network names like enp0s13 or eno1 instead of the old style ethx names.
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Hexdump: Hexdump a binary file and convert it back

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for hexdump (binary) files and converting back the Linux command line xxd works perfect.

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Debian: Set python 3 as default

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debian is still delivered with 2.7 as the default version of python. /usr/bin/python is in fact a symlink to the current default versions binary.

The update-alternatives scripts allows to change this.
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Creating and applying a patch with diff and patch

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this post describes to save and apply changes to an source file.
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