Category Archives: Commands
Very simple MySQL backup bash script
This code backups up mysql databases and gzips them into the current working directory. If you want to backup the mysql table, remove it from the for loop. #!/bin/bash usage(){ echo “Usage $0 <mysql_user> <mysql_password>” exit 1 } if [[ … Continue reading
Installing php-ffmpeg on CentOS 5.x
This can be a pain due to a bug in the ffpmeg_frame.c file … here are the commands to get up and going yum -y install ffmpeg ffmpeg-devel wget http://sourceforge.net/projects/ffmpeg-php/files/ffmpeg-php/0.6.0/ffmpeg-php-0.6.0.tbz2/download tar jxvf ffmpeg-php-0.6.0.tbz2 sed -i ‘s/PIX_FMT_RGBA32/PIX_FMT_RGBA/g’ ffmpeg-php-0.6.0/ffmpeg_frame.c cd ffmpeg-php-0.6.0 && … Continue reading
Search / Replace in files with Linux
I used this command to search over some Apache 2 vhost files to change them from port 8080 to port 80 with Debian. find /etc/apache2/sites-enabled -name “*com” -exec sed -i ‘s/8080/80/g’ {} \; Bookmark on Delicious Digg this post Recommend … Continue reading
Use mogrify to rotate and scale your images on the Linux command line
First, make sure you have ImageMagick installed: #Ubuntu/Debian sudo apt-get install imagemagick #RedHat, Fedora, CentOS sudo yum install imagemagick After that, it’s super easy. mogrify -resize 800 -rotate 90 image.jpg The above command would resize image.jpg to 800 pixels wide … Continue reading
Linux : display file name for found string in files
grep ‘something to find’ -srl /path/to/files -s : suppress error messages -l : suppress normal output and show the file name -r : search recursively into directories Bookmark on Delicious Digg this post Recommend on Facebook share via Reddit Share … Continue reading
