diff --git a/.pre-commit-config_template.yaml b/.pre-commit-config_template.yaml
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+++ b/.pre-commit-config_template.yaml
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+# See https://pre-commit.com for more information
+# See https://pre-commit.com/hooks.html for more hooks
+repos:
+-  repo: meta
+   hooks:
+   - id: check-hooks-apply
+-  repo: local
+   hooks:
+   - id: hadolint-docker-file-entrypoint
+     name: hadolint
+     entry: docker.io/hadolint/hadolint /bin/hadolint
+     language: docker_image
+     types: [dockerfile]
+   - id: shellcheck-docker-file-entrypoint
+     name: shellcheck
+     entry: docker.io/koalaman/shellcheck
+     language: docker_image
+     types: [shell]
+   - id: tflint-locally-installed
+     name: tflint
+     entry: tflint
+     language: system
+     types: [terraform]
+-  repo: https://github.com/pre-commit/pre-commit-hooks
+   rev: v4.4.0
+   hooks:
+    - id: trailing-whitespace
+    - id: end-of-file-fixer
+    - id: check-added-large-files
+    - id: check-yaml
diff --git a/files/custom-data/additional_userdata.sh b/files/custom-data/additional_userdata.sh
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--- a/files/custom-data/additional_userdata.sh
+++ b/files/custom-data/additional_userdata.sh
@@ -1,10 +1,10 @@
-# Copyright © 2021-2023, SAS Institute Inc., Cary, NC, USA. All Rights Reserved.
+# Copyright 2021-2023, SAS Institute Inc., Cary, NC, USA. All Rights Reserved.
 # SPDX-License-Identifier: Apache-2.0
 
 ##
-# 
+#
 # For AWS this is a script 'snippet' that is injected into another script
-# which performs tasks that are AWS specific. 
+# which performs tasks that are AWS specific.
 #
 # Link: https://github.com/terraform-aws-modules/terraform-aws-eks/blob/master/templates/userdata.sh.tpl
 #