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Linux – copy file contents to clipboard
Problem - You have a file with hundreds or thousands of lines and you want to copy the contents of this file and paste it to an external application, for instance to
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Cloud service providers IP ranges – AWS, Azure and GCP
Cloud service providers IP ranges for Amazon Web Services(AWS), Microsoft Azure and Google Cloud Platform(GCP).
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33Linux
curl – show only http response code
Most browsers have developer plugins where you can see the HTTP status code response and other request/response headers. For automation purposes though, you are most
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34Linux
Linux share terminal in real time
How to share your terminal session with another user in real time.
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Sort IP addresses numerically
A novice user's first attempt to sort a list of IP addresses would be to use 'sort -n', that is a numeric-sort option for sort command. Unfortunately, this will sort
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Linux – run a scheduled job once
When we think of running scheduled tasks in Linux, the first tool which comes to mind to most Linux users and admins is cron. Cron is very popular and useful when yo
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Ansible non standard ssh port
How to run playbooks against a host running ssh on a port other than port 22.
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shuffle files in a directory with python
I have a playlist file which contains audio files to play. The audio player unfortunately plays the music files in a sequential order, in whatever order they are lis
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httpie – to curl or not to curl
Curl is the defacto CLI tool for interacting with web services and other non-HTTP services such as FTP or LDAP. Linux or Unix system administrators as well as develo
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GNU date command – practical use cases
date command practical uses
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