Bash alternative to Reflector for Ranking Mirrors

Post by AskApache | May 07, 2013  

A pure bash alternative to the python reflector, using curl, xargs, and sort for ranking Arch Linux mirrors.

Nice and simple. Short and sweet.

ArchLinux awk bash cURL Python reflector sed shell-script

Bash Functions and Aliases for Traps, Kills, and Signals

Apr 26, 2013  

Bash Functions and Aliases for Traps, Kills, and Signals. Useful for translating signal numbers/signal names and getting more info about signals.

bash kill trap

Bash Script to Create index.html of Dir Listing

Apr 25, 2013  

If you use Apache to auto-generate directory index listings of files/dirs, and you have a large number of files and directories in the root directory and/or slow IO speed, then generating the index could take Apache over a minute!

Apache bash DirectoryIndex Htaccess IndexOptions rsync

Encrypted WordPress / phpBB Backups

Aug 04, 2008  

Enter your DOMAIN_ROOT and the location of your wp-config.php or config.php, and this script finds all the mysql settings by parsing the phpbb or wordpress config file, then creates GPG encrypted backups, and saves your settings for future automation.

Automated Folder Backup Shell-Script

Jun 12, 2008  

This simple unix shell script automatically creates backups of a specific folder at regular hourly, nightly, weekly, and monthly intervals. Instead of the usual method for copying directory trees using tar with fifo, pipes, rsync, or NFS methods this script uses cpio which is much much faster and has cool options like saving m/a/c times, symlinks, relative paths, and weird file names.

Search And Replace shell script helpful for Upgrades

Apr 19, 2008  

Search all files in a directory, replacing all occurances of string with a replacement string.

Apache Environment Variables CGI Script

Jan 07, 2008  

My improved version of the common printenv / test-cgi scripts for debugging Apache environment variables set in .htaccess files

PHP5 Custom Install Shell Script Example

Dec 16, 2007  

Today I successfully learned how to compile and run multiple custom php installations for a DreamHost account, and to get it working I came upon a simple shell script that I made a couple changes to.

Custom Webmaster Shell Environment

Jul 04, 2007  

Webmasters often use SSH to remotely admin web sites and servers, learn how to make your shell colorful and powerful using my sample .bash_profile and you can be up and running in 30 seconds!

On-Demand MySQL Backup Shell Script

May 31, 2007  

On-Demand WordPress MySQL database Backup Shell Script for DreamHost

Custom PHP.ini with FastCGI on DreamHost

Feb 22, 2007  

I'm really sorry but I had to disable the sites you had running underuser $USER because that was the only way I could keep the associatedprocesses from restarting themselves and making the server unstable.Please do not run these sites with a persistent php.cgi process with aphp.ini file as an argument.

Shell Scripts for Dreamhost

Jan 16, 2007  

Example shell scripts (bash or sh) that automate and easyate tasks from within the dreamhost ssh env

FastCGI on DreamHost

Nov 28, 2006  

Using FastCGI on DreamHost and .htaccess