How to quickly update WHMCS on WiredTree hosting and others.
NOTE: This script has been updated to remove the premature deletion of the install directory. Over the last month or two, WHMCS has been updated many times. This is a […]...
Category: Bash
How To: List the lines that exist in one file and not another in Linux or Windows Command Line
This solution uses grep. Grep is a search tool that exists by default in just about every Linux installation. You can also search Google for Windows Grep. for a Demo, Here is […]...
HOW TO: Take a quick glance at errors from a project.
PHP records all errors to a file named error_log I needed to look at the status of a project on two servers to see what errors were being thrown. This […]...
HOW TO: Find the IP address of a domain from the local server before propagation
Have you ever wanted to know the ip address assigned to a domain according to your local server? I had this problem. I needed to get an IP address of […]...
HOW TO: Dump or Backup all MySQL databases to separate files
I needed to transfer about 40 databases from a new clients server over to my hosting platform. When doing a couple database exports, I might use PHPMyAdmin to do the […]...
The answer to: How do you set directories to 755 and files to 644?
AKA: Choosing and setting safe file permissions for a WordPress install. If you have ever watched a WordPress security presentation, you’ve heard the advice: Generally speaking, directories should be […]...
In Linux, how do you unzip all the zip files in a directory?
This is a simple issue that trips me up every now and then. Let’s say you have a directory of a couple dozen themes all in zip files. It would […]...
Adding a line to /etc/hosts via bash
It is easy to append a line to a file in BASH. I wrote a short script this morning that I can use to add a single line to my […]...
Three helpful additions to your .bashrc
I just made a change to my .bashrc file and I thought I would share the tip. All of this is pretty basic stuff, but if you don’t customize your […]...
What is wrong with this bash script?
It should say that test.zip is a zip file, but the if statments, which check for TAR in the file name, all return true… If I do this outside of […]...