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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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Find by file name
To perform a find command in terminal use
find / -name...
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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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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How do you generate a .pem file from an existing .ppk key?
Is putty on your...
Andrew Fletcher
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In this woalk through I am going to use GitHub. However, the steps are...
Andrew Fletcher
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As a web developer, you will most likely need to run local copies of a bunch of...
Andrew Fletcher
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Every project has to kick off somewhere. Yep well that's a no brainer....
Andrew Fletcher
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In terminal I ran a regular command - compose update. Something I've completed thousands of times previously. However, this time I received the following response:
env: php: No such file or directory
What gives?
Well, thinking through what had recently changed... The only major change was upgrading OSX to Monterey. So a little of Googling and found yep this could be the cause. PHP has been removed from MacOS since v12 (Monterey), so you first need to...
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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I installed Lando 3.6.2 and Laravel 9. When I visit the web page, I...
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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Changes in your .env file
Connecting your app to the new environment you need to...