The copy command “cp -al” found on all versions of Unix/Linux creates what’s called a “hard link” to a file. The nice thing about this command is that it doesn’t create an actual copy of the file on disk – instead, it creates a “link” or pointer to the file data on the disk. [...]
This script performs a network backup using unix’s rsync command over ssh. It performs an incremental backup, which means that it only updates new files and files that have changed since the last backup, thus minimizing network traffic.
This script runs on the source machine (SOURCE) and connects to the backup machine (BACKUP). [...]
Over the years, I’ve written a number of “search and replace in multiple files” scripts. Working on a computer that didn’t have my standard, custom toolset available, I found myself searching for an alternative.
Found this tip over at Dzone Snippets – do it all with a single line of perl.
perl -pi -w -e [...]
I’m an insomniac.
I have trouble falling asleep at night because thoughts never seem to stop racing through my head – Did I do X yet? What if I did Y? Ooh, I could make it easier to do Y … Hey, I have a cool idea for an awesome invention… [...]
So you’ve got 100 files in a directory and you want to replace the string “foo” with “bar”. Stop before you waste your time opening up every single file and making the change, you can make all of the changes with a single line of perl.
perl -pi -w -e ’s/foo/bar/g’ *\.php
On his blog, [...]
