commands

When working with large prompt or configuration files (for example data/prompts-master.py), it’s common to copy or inspect the file in chunks using sed. Early on, this is easy to manage manually:

When working with Drupal environments, there are times you need to duplicate a directory structure — for example, cloning a site or preparing a new environment without copying certain environment-specific folders.

A common case is excluding:

sites/default/files

This directory typically contains:

Recently I had an error with a domain smtp server not recognising port 587.  To begin to test what was happening I wanted to get some key information about the server.  My tool of choice was the dig command.  Using the dig command:

Regular expressions (regex) are extremely useful in extracting information from any text by searching for one or more matches of a specific search pattern.

Whilst updating nodejs and npm on a Centos 6 or 7 server running Apache, I hit a few walls and as a matter of process found some commands that are handy to run before doing a deep dive in Google.

Cleaning the cache

sudo yum clean all
rm -rf /var/cache/yum/*

To make the cache

sudo yum clean all; sudo yum makecache

If you want to run several commands use semi-colon as noted above.

In Vim, following is an outline of the vi(m) functions you can utilise whilst in command mode - yes they are case sensitive