In this post, we address a common development task of pushing to production. This tutorial assumes you are working on linux, use GIT for version control and are somewhat familiar with python. I’ve only recently started using python for scripting and I can say it’s very friendly for these kind of tasks. Also, I assume […]
Keeping track of your TO-DO‘s is not always easy! Especially if your using mostly plaintext editors for coding your scripts and programs. It’s a good habit to clean up your source code every once in a while and do what you intended with the TODO remark in the first place. Most modern IDE’s have this […]
Today, we’ll show how to find files marked as executable (chmod +x) in a given directory of a linux system. Basic syntax find {directory} -type f -executable Common Examples Find all executables in current directory recursively: find . -type f -executable Find all executables in current directory while skipping subdirectories: find . -maxdepth 1 -type […]
Given a plain text list of URLs (for example links in your history) you want to create a list of HTML links which have the same title as the page’s document title. Offcourse, you want to do it with a script! Example input: https://www.invision-web.net/ https://www.share-2-web.com/ Example output: <a target=”_blank” href=”https://www.invision-web.net/”>InVision-Web.net :: Top work at Web […]
This script is used in a lot of other scripts I produce over time, and it’s very handy for generating colored text output in the terminal. Example of usage Here’s an example of using the colors.sh script: #!/bin/bash source colors.sh echo “${fg_yellow}Yellow ${fg_reset}Normal ${fg_green}Green {$fg_reset}”; Download You can view or download the script here: https://invision-web.net/web/sources/colors.sh […]
In this article, I’ll be enlisting some of the most common git commands I use when working on software projects. # configure the environment and working user git config –global user.name “John Doe” git config –global user.email “john.doe@example.com” git config –global color.ui true # create the bare repository (for push/pull) repo=repository.git mkdir $repo && cd […]
In this article I will cover the installation and configuration of: 1) Apache 3) PHP and basic packages 4) suPHP Also, I’ll explain how to: 1) Configure Apache to run Virtual Hosts for chosen existing users 2) Configure PHP to run as the Virtual Host’s user (suPHP) All the configuration files mentioned in this topic […]
The basic syntax List all files which contain a text pattern (recursively): grep -r -H ‘{pattern}’ {directory} Examples of common use List all files containing <html> in current user’s public_html directory: grep -r -H ‘<html>’ ~/public_html/
The basic syntax Find a file with exact name in a directory: find {directory} -name {filename} Find a file matching a pattern in a directory: find {directory} -name ‘{pattern}’ Examples of common use Find a file recursively named “foo.bar” in current directory: find . -name foo.bar Find a file recursively named “foo.bar” on the system: […]
I’m comprising a list of some common file locations on the system (CentOS 5+): CentOS fresh installation and using yum install {package} /etc/profile user profile script location the default script which runs once a user is logged in to shell via SSH /home/user/.bash_profile user profile script location the second script which runs once user is […]