As always, I've changed pertinent details for reasons. I was working on an ASR the other day and received the follow error: RP/0/RSP0/CPU0:ASR9K(config-tacacs-host)# commit Fri Jul 29 12:55:46.243 PDT % Failed to commit one or more configuration items during a pseudo-atomic operation. All change...

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I had this interesting question the other day. Someone had a file with two columns of data in it. They wanted to assign each column to a different variable and then take action using those two variables. Here's the example I wrote for them: IFS=$'n'; for LINE in $(cat data_file); do V...

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Quick and dirty OpenSSH configlet here. If you have a set of hosts or devices that require you to first jump through a bastion host, the following will allow you to run a single ssh command: Host * ProxyCommand ssh -A <bastion_host> nc %h %p Change the Host * line to best match the h...

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I was recently asked to take two lists and interleave them. Although I can not think of a scenario off the top of my head where this might be useful, it doesn't strike me as a completely silly thing to do. StackOverflow's top answer for this problem uses itertools.chain.from_iterable() and iterto...

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One of my scripts that makes an API call has been failing silently lately. It appears that the connection is timing out, but I am not catching that particular error. So, I fixed that. @@ -8,6 +8,7 @@ import os import random import shelve +import socket import sys import time import urllib2 ...

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