#Unix shell

Why did I decide to try Docker after being totally happy with Vagrant for such a long time? Well, I switched to the new dev machine, based on an M1 processor, which is unsupported by VirtualBox. Also for the speed, less disc consumption, ease of networking between containers and other benefits of containerized approach, such as when I'm working on...

You probably already know that FFmpeg can resize images proportionally, and also that it can't overwrite them. So you either save resized files under new names or into a new folder, and it becomes tedious... When you repeat the same pattern multiple times over the week, it's time to search for a way to automate it...

Regular backups are important. This tutorial shows how to back up the MySQL database daily and keep only the latest. It requires you to be familiar (a bit) with mysqldump and ...

Sometimes, you just want to set quick and simple password protection for a folder. That's how it can be done in Apache.

First, we need to find needed files, using the 'find' command. The find utility recursively descends the directory tree for each path listed, evaluating an expression in terms of each file in the tree. Next, we need to count lines, using wc (word, line, character, and byte count) command with -l (lines) parameter.