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My public notes about various information technology topics... 

GitHub classic vs. fine-grained Personal Access Tokens

What are PATs? Personal access tokens are an alternative to using passwords for authentication to GitHub when using the GitHub API or the command line. Personal access tokens are intended to access GitHub resources on your behalf. To access resources on behalf of an organization,…

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GitHub Codespace

What is a Codespace? A codespace is a development environment that's hosted in the cloud. You can customize your project for GitHub Codespaces by committing configuration files to your repository (also known as configuration-as-code), which creates a repeatable codespace configuration for all users of your…

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Awk and Sed

awk and sed are text manipulation programs. You can use them for example to replace strings: echo image.jpg | sed 's/\.jpg/.png/' image.png or change order of strings: echo "hello world" | awk '{print $2, $1}' world hello awk and sed are harder to learn than…

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