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ansible-cmdb - Structuring and Visualizing Ansible Facts

ansible-cmdb is a Python program that structures collected Ansible facts and visualizes them using beautifully formatted HTML.

#ansible #devops #linux #cli #bash #shell #gui #guide

Bash: An Example of Optimizing Filtering Commands with grep and awk

I will tell you about a task I solved the other day🧑‍💻 I slightly changed the input data, but the essence remains the same. There are two CSV files: 📄ping_status.csv contains diagnostic information about host availability by ping.

#bash #linux #shell #scripting #howto

Bash: Features of Arithmetic Operations - Increment ((expression++))

When testing the host availability check script I mentioned last time, I encountered an interesting Bash feature when performing arithmetic operations💪.

#bash #linux #shell #scripting #howto

Bash: Writing a Universal Host Availability Check Script

Today we'll write a useful Bash script🧑‍💻 that performs various host availability checks on the network🌐. As an example, I'll show how to check connectivity using the `ping` utility🏓 and run a traceroute when it's lost⚡.

#bash #linux #scripting #shell #howto

flock - Locks in Shell Scripts

In this note, we will talk about file locks in Bash scripts🔒 using the specialized utility flock.

#bash #linux #scripting #shell #howto

Configuring logging of Bash script output

Many users of Linux🐧 systems face the need to write the output of a particular command/script to a log file📑. In this article we will look at several ways to configure journaling (aka logging) in Linux using the popular command shell — Bash, as an example.

#bash #linux #shell #scripting #guide

Writing a Function for Quick Access to Complex Commands in Zsh and Bash

In this article we will create a function for the Zsh and Bash shells that allows quick and convenient access to a prepared list of complex, long, and hard-to-remember commands🤯.

#bash #linux #zsh #shell #howto

Customizing .zshrc when using Oh My Zsh

Today we will look at the process of configuring the popular command shell ZSH⚙️ through the environment loading file .zshrc📝 when using the oh-my-zsh framework.

#linux #open-source #zsh #shell #guide

bat, exa — Syntax Highlighting for Standard Output in the Linux Terminal (cat, less, tail and ls)

They say that if you read white text on a black background for too long, you start to hear the terminal whisper🙃. In this note we'll talk about how to improve the perception of text from the "black window" by adding syntax highlighting with the command-line utilities bat and exa.