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It can be useful to create wildcard domains for local services.  Rather than create one for each local service, a wildcard is easier. It would be easy to use dnsmasq to do this, but Pihole no longer directly supports that.

There are two options to get this to work:

misc.dnsmasq_lines

The developers of Pihole anticipated that we might have this very need. In the GUI, switch to Expert mode and then go to All Settings->Miscellaneous. Scroll down to misc.dnsmasq_lines where you can add individual values that will be injected into the configuration.

Add address=/.local.mydomain.com/192.168.1.16 for a wildcard. (The leading . is vital!)

Regex domain redirects

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I have recently come accross with a new solution to one of my biggest headaches in any linux system and it is to manage the nightmareof the dot files. I have previously used stow in order to mantain the symbolic links, but there is a much better solution using git bare repositories.

1. Creating the repository

1. Create a git bare repository with the following line

    mkdir $HOME/.dotfiles
    git init --bare $HOME/.dotfiles

2. Create an alias for a better managing of the configuration

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Bash Shortcuts

Moving

command	description
ctrl + a	Goto BEGINNING of command line

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#!/bin/bash
# ANSI escape codes
# Black        0;30     Dark Gray     1;30
# Red          0;31     Light Red     1;31
# Green        0;32     Light Green   1;32
# Brown/Orange 0;33     Yellow        1;33
# Blue         0;34     Light Blue    1;34
# Purple       0;35     Light Purple  1;35
# Cyan         0;36     Light Cyan    1;36
# Light Gray   0;37     White         1;37