Shell commands for command prompt (command line) and ssh terminal commands and code snippets.
For PHP 5.6 Make a backup copy of your current php.ini. Open a terminal and enter the following. The php.ini-development file for PHP 5.6 on Ubuntu 16.04 is located in First, check to make sure that the php.ini-development file is at this location. Open the file: Replace gedit above with your text editor. For example, … Read more →
This is a quick reference cheat sheet for Linux commands to manage files on the command line. Count the files (including directories) in a directory. This gives you the total number of files. Count the files in a directory, per each type of extension. This will tell you how many of each type of file … Read more →
Bash Shell Script To Bulk Optimize Images With TinyPNG APIThis is a bash shell script that will optimize and compresses all JPG, JPEG, and PNG images in a local directory with the TinyPNG API. It will optimize images with these extensions: .png, .PNG, .jpg, .JPG, .jpeg, and .JPEG. The script will not modify or delete your existing images. It will simply create an optimized … Read more →
Place this bash shell script in any local directory that you want to sync to a remote server. This script is for copying FROM your local directory TO a remote server. When you run the script, it will update the remote server to match your local directory, EXACTLY *. This means that if you delete … Read more →
These are the terminal commands to reset your MySQL password for your “root” user. This is useful if you forgot your MySQL password on your local LAMP server. This is a fix for errors like these: ERROR 1045: Access denied for user: ‘root@localhost’ (Using password: NO) ERROR 1045: Access denied for user: ‘root@localhost’ (Using password: … Read more →
If you are extracting a very large .tar.gz file, the process can be terminated before it finishes. This can sometimes help: Run the command again, but add the -k flag so that it will skip over any files that have already been extracted. So if you were extracting sample.tar.gz, like this: Then, after it gets … Read more →
This is a quick way to transfer or move files from one server to another server via the command line. This uses SSH. Before you begin, make sure your web host allows SSH connections. Some hosts require that you first enable SSH before they give you access. This works in a linux terminal (or PuTTY … Read more →
When you want to completely remove MySQL 5.5 from your local Ubuntu LAMP server, you can use these terminal commands:
To check if the PHP exec() function is working on your local LAMP server, paste this in the terminal: Then, navigate in your browser to your http://localhost/whomi.php. You should see “whoim = ” and the user who executed the script. If you see this, then the PHP exec() function is working. If you don’t see … Read more →
This will create a PHP info page so that you can test if your PHP server is working. This test file will be created quickly using the command line. Open a terminal and type: Open your web browser and type in the address bar “localhost/test.php” and press ‘enter’. You should see the PHP Info page. … Read more →