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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...
Andrew Fletcher
I've recently upgraded the server Ubuntu 20.04 updating the PHP version from 7.4...
Andrew Fletcher
Setting up the admin password.   Process: 1. Edit jetty.xml To begin you...
Andrew Fletcher
Recently I have been investigating one of my Linux server's speed using the...
Andrew Fletcher
In this article I'll walk through the steps I went through to install Solr on...
Andrew Fletcher
Looking to install Solr on your server?  Not sure if it worth the effort?  Well, Apache Solr is the open-source, popular, super fast open source enterprise search platform from the Apache Lucene project.  Written in Java, Solr is highly scalable, providing fault-tolerant distributed search and indexing. Let's walk through the steps I went through to install Solr on Centos 7.   Step 1: Java Check if Java is installed on your server: java -versionNot there - then JAVA is the...
Andrew Fletcher
I had generated a backup of key directories on the server - see Create a...
Andrew Fletcher
Currently, I have a situation where I have two repositories.  The first is...
Andrew Fletcher
Creating a bash script Bash scripts are files containing code that tell your...
Andrew Fletcher
Accessing a remote server using PEM key, and I had the following...
Andrew Fletcher
How do you generate a .pem file from an existing .ppk key? Is putty on your mac? Check by running the command puttygen -VWhich will generate a response similar to  puttygen: Release 0.76 Build platform: 64-bit Unix Compiler: clang 12.0.5 (clang-1205.0.22.9) Source commit: 1fd7baa7344bb....Don't have Putty, well easily fixed with homebrew. brew install putty  Generate the key We will use puttygen to generate the key. puttygen key.ppk -O private-openssh -o key.pem key.ppk the...
Andrew Fletcher
Currently I'm working through an app that has been abandoned by the developers....
Andrew Fletcher
First off, this isn't the only method to achieve the outcome of emptying a...
Andrew Fletcher
Clear DNS Cache The DNS (Domain Name Service) cache on your Mac helps browsers...
Andrew Fletcher
Changing git push from passphrase?  There are several ways to tackle this...