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Bulletin Board Systems (BBSes) were something of a precursor to the Internet. Back then, you would dial into such a system over a telephone line using a modem and terminal emulator to—for example—download files, exchange messages, or play simple arcade games. If you find this history interesting, I recommend the FidoPedia page as a starting point for further research; going into detail here wou...
Anyone who regularly administers Linux servers will find themselves repeatedly performing the same tasks to ensure the system is running as intended. When dealing with only a few systems, this is usually done directly via SSH, as the effort of maintaining dedicated remote management tools is rarely worthwhile. So why not simply create a script that executes quick commands and filters the output to...
