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Andrew Fletcher
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...
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I've recently upgraded the server Ubuntu 20.04 updating the PHP version from 7.4...
Andrew Fletcher
How do you remove a file from git? Use the command (rm) to remove files from...
Andrew Fletcher
Moving a Git repo due to a change of agencies   Steps to change the...
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Find by file name To perform a find command in terminal use find / -name...
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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...
Andrew Fletcher
An approach to generating a backup server is using a shell script.  A...
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Currently, I have a situation where I have two repositories.  The first is...
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Creating a bash script Bash scripts are files containing code that tell your...
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Working on a decoupled React / Drupal 9 site. Aim: Adjust the output of curated...
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How to make React calls on a Drupal 9 backend site using the search functionality Tools Drupal 9.4 React     The sample sent through from the front-end is as follows: https://localhost/search?keyword=&sort=changed&type=%20CommissionerHowever, to run requests, the keyword requires a string.  Such as searching the word 'committee'. https://localhost:8006/search?keyword=committeeIf no keyword is entered, the response will be empty. No results found for "".How to...
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This code is from Drupal 9 back-end for a React front-end via REST API. Working...
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Working from the bases that .DS_Store has not been added to your git repository,...
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How do you generate a .pem file from an existing .ppk key? Is putty on your...
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Adding git tag to your actions. The regular process that I work to is git add...