Server Admin

Working with a Drupal development team on a large website that was continually being updated by the client sets some very challenging issues. You'll know the hassle when it comes the time your client wants to start adding more new features or sections to their existing site. The question you'll begin to ask yourself is

"How do we add the new features while the client continues to update their site without losing the updated contents when the new features have been completed?" read more »

There are certain tasks in Drupal modules that requires a Cron job to be setup. This is a command that gets execute on the server and runs automatically in the background at specified period of time - once per day, once per hour, each 5 minutes, each Monday etc. to execute certain scripts.

It's a very useful command to setup and here's an easy step-by-step tutorial.

The grep command is regarded as one of the most essential building blocks of command line automation. It is a search tool that can be used to perform basic text filtering and processing tasks on files and streams. Although it is deceptively simple, it can sometimes take the challenge out of finding the proverbial needle in a haystack. In this article, I'm going to show you several examples of how it can be used to perform real-world tasks.

The most common and basic scenario of grep usage is a text search. It can be used to find instances of a word or phrase in files and text streams. You can invoke it at the command line by typing the command name, the search query, and the target files in which to search. To find the word "needle" in the haystack.txt file, I use the following command:

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