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  Charly doesn’t relish the idea of searching through the logfiles of a dozen proxy servers when page requests fail. Now that he has deployed Cluster SSH, he can pull the strings on many machines at the same time.

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• Charly's Column: Fish

  Columnist Charly serves up Fish as the "shellfish" of the day. His conclusion: tasty, but not something you would want every day.

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• The sys admin's daily grind: colorls

  The first time in our lives we got to a black-and-white Linux or Unix shell, most of us probably typed ls first. In a mixture of nostalgia and the knowledge that life is colorful, columnist Charly Kühnast plays a colorful trump card with colorls.

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• Charly's Column

  Parallel SSH is the name of an easy-to-configure tool that our resident sys admin, Charly, now routinely deploys whenever he needs to launch the same programs, copy the same files, or kill the same processes simultaneously on multiple computers.

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• Charly's Column – Prettyping and Asciiflow

  Columnist Charly is delighted that people still program useful tools for the terminal. Here, he looks at one tool that transforms boring ping data into colorful statistics and another that publishes a construction set for ASCII graphics on the network.

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