Emulate pbcopy and pbpaste in Linux with xsel - Bash

One of nice tools I did use before are "pbcopy" and "pbpaste", which are simply copy and paste any data to and from clipboard in command line! It's a Mac OS tool, and unfortunately there is no port for Linux!

However you still can get the same functionality on Linux using

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Use different source or destination in one config file - Telegraf

Data and metrics are my favorite parts, that's why I really love InfluxDB and its stack (TICK stack which is: Telegraf, InfluxDB, Chronograf, and Kapacitor) ... but actually I like to use Grafana instead Chronograf.

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Continuous Delivery and Maturity Model - DevOps

As I mentioned in last time, this post is about best articles I read about Continuous Delivery and Maturity Model :-)

After a quick review of "Continuous integration tools and best practices", I also did read more about

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Continuous integration tools and best practices - DevOps

I'm always interested in improving the way I do things, so I love to learn new technologies, go with new challenges ... and most important thing, I don't believe in "If it's not broke, don't fix it"! I always review and re-evaluate how I do things!

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Now I'm an AWS Certified Solutions Architect

Here we are, now I'm an AWS Certified Solutions Architect :-)

My favorite part in AWS Solutions Architect is "AWS Reference Architecture",

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LibreOffice macro to fix common mistakes with Regex - Python

However I'm a Linux system admin, but I have other activities too. As a technical writer and an author, I work a lot with text, and as usual I always try to automate what can be automated even outside system administration!

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I just got my AWS SysOps Administrator certification

Last Saturday, I passed AWS SysOps Administrator exam and got the certification :-)

Although I still have concerns about most

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Run playbook starting of a certain task - Ansible

Most of the time when people test Ansible playbook or debugging it, I see them run the whole of playbook every time! But one of my preferred ways to do that is "Start and Step".

These options allow you to run playbooks from a

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Trigger click event on elements - Native JavaScript and JQuery

Maybe I'm a Sysops guy, and don't use JavaScript on a daily basis, but JS became a mandatory language and got an elastic eco-system, so as a power user you may need it from time to time to do some fancy things :D

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