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Andrew Fletcher
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I'm in an environment where the default branch is staging and I'm attempting to run a git merge. However, in actioning this command, I'm been greeted with the following response 'not something we can merge'
❯ git merge origin/{branch}
merge: origin/{branch} - not something we can mergeTo resolve this, first I attempted to do a git checkout to the branch
But this was swiftly meet with "did not match any file(s) known to git"
git checkout {branch}
error: pathspec '{branch}' did not match...
Andrew Fletcher
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How to count the number of files in a directory. At some point you'll have...
Andrew Fletcher
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I've recently upgraded the server Ubuntu 20.04 updating the PHP version from 7.4...
Andrew Fletcher
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Recently I have been investigating one of my Linux server's speed using the...
Andrew Fletcher
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I had generated a backup of key directories on the server - see Create a...
Andrew Fletcher
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An approach to generating a backup server is using a shell script. A script can define directories to backup, and pass those directories as arguments to the tar utility, which creates an archive file. The archive file can then be moved or copied to another location.
Example Shell Script
#!/bin/bash
#
# Backup script
#
# NAME: daily-backup.sh
# PATH: /mnt/e/bin
# DESC: Backup scripts, documents and configuration files to .tar
#
# What to backup
# backup_files="/home...
Andrew Fletcher
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Goal: Restrict content access through username and password entry.
1: Apache...
Andrew Fletcher
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Currently, I have a situation where I have two repositories. The first is...
Andrew Fletcher
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Creating a bash script
Bash scripts are files containing code that tell your...
Andrew Fletcher
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Accessing a remote server using PEM key, and I had the following...
Andrew Fletcher
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How do you generate a .pem file from an existing .ppk key?
Is putty on your mac?
Check by running the command
puttygen -VWhich will generate a response similar to
puttygen: Release 0.76
Build platform: 64-bit Unix
Compiler: clang 12.0.5 (clang-1205.0.22.9)
Source commit: 1fd7baa7344bb....Don't have Putty, well easily fixed with homebrew.
brew install putty
Generate the key
We will use puttygen to generate the key.
puttygen key.ppk -O private-openssh -o key.pem
key.ppk
the...
Andrew Fletcher
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Currently I'm working through an app that has been abandoned by the developers....
Andrew Fletcher
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First off, this isn't the only method to achieve the outcome of emptying a...
Andrew Fletcher
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Clear DNS Cache
The DNS (Domain Name Service) cache on your Mac helps browsers...
Andrew Fletcher
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Changing git push from passphrase? There are several ways to tackle this...