web development and system administration of Linux
In order to completely remove a PHP file from Git including its commit history, you need to follow this sequence of actions: Make sure that you have created a working backup of the file you are going to delete and checked that you can restore from it. Delete the file from the repository. You can … Continue reading How to clear the history of a Git repository from a PHP file?
To effectively manage and view the list of all PHP libraries installed in your project using Composer, you can utilize the following command: Adding the | more part to the command is particularly helpful when dealing with extensive lists. This suffix enables you to paginate the output, making it easier to read and navigate, especially … Continue reading PHP composer show view installed libraries
Viewing binary files through the console can occasionally lead to unexpected and disruptive issues. You might have experienced situations where the console seems to ‘break’— displaying strange characters, replacing normal text with incomprehensible hieroglyphs, and even triggering unexpected sound alerts or bizarre color blends. These anomalies can render the console practically unusable, disrupting your workflow. … Continue reading Dealing with Binary Files in the Console: A Quick Fix for Common Issues – using reset command
Shell scripting provides a versatile way to automate tasks in Unix-like systems. For programmers familiar with C or languages with similar syntax, the following pattern can be particularly intuitive: In this script, we define an array named arr with three string elements: ‘foo’, ‘bar’, and ‘baz’. We then iterate over the array using a for … Continue reading Exploring Array Syntax in Shell Scripting: A C-Like Approach
Introduction In this quick guide, we’ll explore some useful bash commands to find files modified within a specific time frame. This is especially useful for system administrators and developers. Finding Files Modified Today To find all files in a directory that were modified today, you can use the following command: This command searches for files … Continue reading Linux find search for files changed in date range
As a part of our Docker production setup of Laravel web application we are using the following composer install with some options described below: –optimize-autoloader or -o: This flag tells Composer to optimize the autoloader for better performance. Autoloading is a mechanism in PHP that automatically loads classes when they are needed. Optimizing the autoloader … Continue reading Some useful composer options we are use for production Docker setup in Laravel apps
To install TeamViewer on Ubuntu Linux 22.04 use the follwoing commands: This command will make you Linux administrator super user root. It is needed to install or update any system software on your system. The first thing we need is to install SSL certificates using commands below: The second part of commands updates system software … Continue reading How to install TeamViewer on Ubuntu Linux 22.04
Sometimes, when you working with Linux, you may need to zip some files with a password-protected zip archive. You could do it with the command below:
For example, you have a function which takes two parameters int|float $min and int|float $max parameters and you need to swap variable values vise versa, in case if $max value is less then $min value. You can do it using the following code below:
Sometimes, then you need to transfer few Git branches from existing repository to a new one you could run the following commands: This command will create a new folder new-repo-folder with a .git folder inside, but without any files from branches. Change to the repository folder: Adding the necessary branches: Now you need to do … Continue reading Git – copy few branches from old repository to a new one
