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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
Installing PHP on OSX and it installed PHP 8.2.x.  However, for my...
Andrew Fletcher
Regular commands for brew   Brew update This updates Homebrew itself....
Andrew Fletcher
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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Creating a bash script Bash scripts are files containing code that tell your...
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How do you generate a .pem file from an existing .ppk key? Is putty on your...
Andrew Fletcher
In this woalk through I am going to use GitHub.  However, the steps are...
Andrew Fletcher
As a web developer, you will most likely need to run local copies of a bunch of different web sites. Regularly switching between several sites daily.  Sometime Drupal, other Laravel and whatever frameworks that are in your toolkit.   Install Docker and Lando Do you have Docker installed?  No, then go to the Docker Desktop page and download. Now let's look in to Lando.  Have a look at the Lando releases on GitHub to download the latest package for your OS. Run the installer. I...
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Every project has to kick off somewhere.  Yep well that's a no brainer....
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In terminal I ran a regular command - compose update.  Something I've...
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Currently I'm working through an app that has been abandoned by the developers....
Andrew Fletcher
I installed Lando 3.6.2 and Laravel 9.  When I visit the web page, I...