Have you been caught in the situation where a project you thought would be simple and low maintenance turned out to be popular and now you are faced with the problem of logging into servers and doing repeated tasks because you haven’t had enough ‘free’ time to automate some of your processes? A quick bandaid could be pssh (Parallel SSH). PSSH Quick Intro Pssh lets you log into multiple servers at the same time and run commands.

When we need to mangle or massage some data on a Linux/UNIX server or desktop, we usually like to use applications like Google Sheets or other fully fledged data processing software forgetting about pipes. A basic description of the pipe ( | ) is that it allows the output of one command to be the input of another. What this lets you do is filter data in steps as you chain commands.