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Andrew Fletcher
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How to count the number of files in a directory. At some point you'll have a directory or directories that you need to know the number of files in them. On Linux, the list command (ls) is piped with the wc -l command.
ls | wc -lThis command works great if all the files are located in one directory. What about if you have multiple directories. Then you will need to use the find command piped with the wc command
find <directory> -type f | wc -lThis command only...
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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Looking at composer I first wanted to check the current version, which is...
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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Build the PHP base image with apache-buster using the Dockerfile.base
Since JN...
Andrew Fletcher
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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...
Andrew Fletcher
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This article works through the steps to update dependencies in 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...
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 computer to do something. In this instance, I want to rename a batch files in a directory. Such as changing:
37351001 - BlueSpotted.jpg
37351008 -SpangledEmporer _ 0133A.jpg
37353003 -Black-Bream_3481 .jpg
37353004 -35 - Yellowfin.jpgInstead having these files appear as:
37351001.jpg
37351008.jpg
37353003.jpg
37353004.jpgHowever, I don't have four files. Wouldn't be worth my time...
Andrew Fletcher
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Accessing a remote server using PEM key, and I had the following...
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How do you generate a .pem file from an existing .ppk key?
Is putty on your...
Andrew Fletcher
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Had the situation where you are running composer however, the scripts stops with...
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In this woalk through I am going to use GitHub. However, the steps are...