A chronological documentation test project, nothing serious, really!
WARNING: this will fail if the user is playing with $0 For example using a symbolic or hard link with a unexpected name. # Simplest… # PROGNAME=`type $0 | awk ‘{print $3}’` # search for executable on path PROGNAME=`basename $PROGNAME` # base name of program # Advanced… # Script name, in what directory, and in […]
You can stop others from hotlinking your site’s files by placing a file called .htaccess in your Apache site root (main) directory. The period before the name means the file is hidden, so you may want to edit your file as htaccess.txt, upload it to your server, then rename the txt file to .htaccess in […]
Function to check if a URL is online/exists. function is_valid_url($url){ $url = @parse_url($url); if (!$url) { return false; } $url = array_map(‘trim’, $url); $url[‘port’] = (!isset($url[‘port’])) ? 80 : (int)$url[‘port’]; $path = (isset($url[‘path’])) ? $url[‘path’] : ”; if ($path == ”) { […]
To run the Windows Manager (Desktop Environment) of your choice the following have to be in the users home directory .xinitrc file. XFCE4 exec startxfce4 Gnome exec gnome-session KDE exec startkde
List the names of files in the current directory dated May 16. ls -l | awk ‘{if($6==”May” && $7==”16″) print $NF }’