Find by file name To perform a find command in terminal use find / -name php.ini -type f find / -name {filename} {type parameters}Note there are many parameters in the commands, so I'll cover a couple regular expressions here.  Such as,  -name matches the string being searched and is case sensitive -iname matches the string being searched and is case insensitive -type f means to find a file with the name being searched.  In this instance php.ini -type d find a...

I had generated a backup of key directories on the server - see Create a Ubuntu backup shell script.  With a backup in hand, now it was time to test how to unpack a backup and overwrite the directories. First I unpacked the backup to a temporary directory tmp-cc. Now I wanted to replace several of the directories on the server.  Starting with home, var and etc.   But what is an efficient method to overwrite a directory?   Also removing any directories that aren't in the...