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Packaging what?

I would be mad at any admin that would dare to deploy his helper shell scripts like “addup” and “count” on a machine other than his laptop.

And if you meant he could just have these things in his home, then it defeats the purpose of the original comment: trouble shooting and administering machines forces you to often switch user, machine, etc.

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If a company has recurring troubleshooting issues, eg. "we need to know which process is taking all the CPU/RAM/IO", why wouldn't they add a script when they provision their machines with puppet or whatever tool they use?

Then instead of having to remember how to check all these things, they just run "find_resource_hogs.sh" and voila. It also enables other people to troubleshoot without specific knowledge.

Of course you don't want to put anything in there just because it might save 10 seconds, but then https://xkcd.com/1205/

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