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In RedHat distributions like RHEL, Fedora and also CentOS you have a tool called ntsysv to manage daemons and their runlevels. In Debian there is an alternative tool that lets you determine what daemon you want to run using a text GUI sysv-rc-conf It makes it easy to manage which daemons you would like to […]
grep recursively through subdirectories for files that match a specific pattern: grep -l -r –include=*.doc regex * The equivalent command unsing find: find . -name ‘*.doc’ -exec grep -l regex \{\} \; The option after grep is the lowercase letter L, not the number 1). Remove the -l to see the actual matches instead of […]
Oneliner to rename files/directories. It converts ” ” into “_” and the characters to lower-case. $> perl -e ‘while(< *>) { $old=$_; s/ +/_/g; rename($old,lc($_)); }’ To limit it to a single filetype use it this way and replace ”.doc” with whatever you like. $> perl -e ‘while(< *.doc>) { $old=$_; s/ +/_/g; rename($old,lc($_)); }’
A easy way to get information about shutdowns and reboots is to run the command last reboot or last -x | grep down
If you have shell access to your webserver this script can be used to upgrade your WordPress installation to the latest version quickly. Always remeber to backup your database and installation files before running it! Do change the bold text to reflect your WordPress Internet address before you run the script. #!/bin/bash CURDIR=$(pwd) SITE=”http://yoursite.com/wordpress” echo […]