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Andrew Fletcher
I'm in an environment where the default branch is staging and I'm attempting to run a git merge.  However, in actioning this command, I'm been greeted with the following response 'not something we can merge' ❯ git merge origin/{branch} merge: origin/{branch} - not something we can mergeTo resolve this, first I attempted to do a git checkout to the branch But this was swiftly meet with "did not match any file(s) known to git" git checkout {branch} error: pathspec '{branch}' did not match...
Andrew Fletcher
How to count the number of files in a directory.  At some point you'll have...
Andrew Fletcher
I've recently upgraded the server Ubuntu 20.04 updating the PHP version from 7.4...
Andrew Fletcher
Recently I have been investigating one of my Linux server's speed using the...
Andrew Fletcher
Find by file name To perform a find command in terminal use find / -name...
Andrew Fletcher
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...
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
In this woalk through I am going to use GitHub.  However, the steps are...
Andrew Fletcher
In terminal I ran a regular command - compose update.  Something I've...
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...