useful terminal commands

terminal.ini

# find all php.ini files on machine from terminal.
mdfind php.ini | grep php.ini

# copy local file to remote machine via scp
scp -P 92 /path/filename.ext user@hostname.com:~/path

# delete non-empty directory
rm -rf <dirname>

# unzip zip file in current dir
unzip file.zip -d .

# add symlinks to php.ini to every subfolder of current dir
find -type d -exec ln -s $PWD/php.ini {}/php.ini \;
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#      1       2    3      4           5
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# 1 walks a file hierarchy, option -d walks only dirs
# 2 at each step, execute following utility program
# 3 ln creates a linked file, option -s means create a symlink
# 4 $PWD holds the absolute pathname of the current working directory
# 5 to be understood...