How to set the Private file path in Drupal using the following steps: Create a private folder in the web root Add a .htaccess file to the private folder Update the settings.php file   Create a private folder in the web root Open a terminal window and navigate to the web root directory of your Drupal site. In your web root add your private folder.  In this instance I'll create a folder named 'prvt-media'.  Use the mkdir command to create a new folder named prvt-media mkdir...

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...