Monthly Archives: June 2009

Move files from one directory into another without affecting the existing directory using mac terminal

As part of using mac terminal more and more in my own day to day work, I today needed to be able to move all …

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Simple Essential Subversion Commands

As we are now using subversion here at Bytewire I thought it might be useful to just blog a few of the essential commands. svn …

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How to tunnel a mysql connection to your remote server

Today I spent alot of the day sorting our development techniques to bring a best practise into what we do. We needed to both be …

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Download a file / folder using mac terminal and curl

Simply use the following command: curl -O http://www.yoursite.com/backup/mybackup.tar.gz Will simply download the file to your local machine and your current location. To change the current …

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How to create a tar gzip backup of your websites files and folders mac terminal

Simply use the following command: Firstly cd into the directory you want the backup to go into so cd /sites/backups/ tar cvfz backupname.tar.gz /sites/yoursite.com/http This …

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How to remove a entire directory, files and sub directories using mac terminal

Terminal Mac Simply use the following command: rm -rf /sites/yoursite/http2 This will force remove all files and folders under the toplevel folder you specified so …

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Where can I find websites that are for sale?

Untill a few weeks back I was pretty lost in terms of looking for a decent site to browse websites that go for sale, how …

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How to move your domain name to another server

This is a very short post about how to move your domain name if you really dont have a clue. What you’ll need Youll need …

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Search Engine Optimisation – The Basics – Lesson 1

After doing some pretty intense search engine optimisation over the last few months myself and to some great success I feel its time to share …

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