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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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Installing PHP on OSX and it installed PHP 8.2.x. However, for my...
Andrew Fletcher
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Regular commands for brew
Brew update
This updates Homebrew itself....
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Recently I have been investigating one of my Linux server's speed using the...
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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...
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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...
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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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...
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Currently I'm working through an app that has been abandoned by the developers....
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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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Clear DNS Cache
The DNS (Domain Name Service) cache on your Mac helps browsers...
Andrew Fletcher
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Changing git push from passphrase? There are several ways to tackle this...