Bash Terminal Commands

devwax-commands.sh

# copy dir contents to another dir
# https://askubuntu.com/a/86891
cp -a source/. dest/

# https://docs.gitlab.com/ee/user/ssh.html
ssh-keygen -t ed25519 -C "<comment>"

# SSH Public Key Setup
Copy public key to clipboard
pbcopy < ~/.ssh/id_rsa.pub

On Remote server add public key to .ssh/authorized_keys
chmod 600 .ssh/authorized_keys
chmod 700 .ssh/

# Copy local file to remote dir
scp file.php user@255.255.255.255:/home/.../public_html/

# (reverse order for remote to local)
scp user@255.255.255.255:/home/.../public_html/file.php .

# Watch all files in current dir
sass --watch .

# Find directories with large disk usage
du -hs * | sort -h

# Disk inodes, etc
df -i

# Tar gzip files and folders

# Preview tar
tar c public_html | tar t

# Compress a directory
tar -pczf wp-admin.tar.gz wp-admin

# Exclude patterns while compressing a directory
tar -pczf wp-content.tar.gz wp-content --exclude="*/plugins" --exclude="*/uploads" --exclude="*/themes"

# Extract
# https://linuxize.com/post/how-to-extract-unzip-tar-gz-file/
tar -xvf filename.tar.gz

# Server-to-server file transfer
wget https://domain.com/wp-content/filename.tar.gz

# Search all PHP files containing string recursively
# https://superuser.com/a/584432/699121
grep -r --include=*.php "search string" /path/to/dir

# find files by name recursively
find . -name "*file*"

# Watch debug.log for changes in real-time
tail -f debug.log

# Delete debug.log from CLI w/ PHP
# (sometimes necessary if ftp or ssh user doens't have permission to do so)
php -r 'unlink("./debug.log");'

# htaccess to display remote /uploads/ images and assets on a local server to avoid having to download them all.
# Note: Place in dir: /wp-contnet/uploads/ and ignore in git
RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteRule (.*) https://www.domain.org/wp-content/uploads/$1

# wp-cli garbage collection and other useful commands
wp elementor flush_css;
wp elementor update db;
wp cache flush;
wp plugin install "[plugin-name]" --activate;