Hi! Today, I just want to share you an easy way to check the SHA1 digest using a the terminal in Mac OSX. This command is really useful when you need to know if any file -for example an ISO- was downloaded correctly. Step 1. Open a terminal. Step 2. Type next command and wait…
Today, I spent some time helping a partner of mine trying to figure out how to enable and use the CakePHP console in Mac OS + XAMPP (Mac OS version of course), so, after searching on the internet what was going on, I realized there was a problem with the unix_socket for MySQL because Mac…
Imagine next situation: You have too many files without extension but you know they are valid HTML files, so you have to add an “.html” extension to all these files. Now, if you need to rename thousands of files you will need to do it with a script, definitely. In order to make this happen,…
When you need to connect to several servers because you need to share, update or syncronize a set of files, a common situation is authentication process with the server, if you do this several times in a day, it could be a little hard to type or input your password every time that you are…
Today, after downloading a new version of a Linux distribution, I needed to check MD5 Hash in order to verify if the ISO file had not any error. This is a common task for IT people, for this reason, I would like to share with you the easiest way to get the MD5 Hash in…
When you have a project created on Joomla CMS, you will need to protect your directories and files in order to avoid a possible attack or loosing information. During my time as a web developer and as a server admin in Government I learnt about what’s is a good configuration for setting permissions, for this…
Sublime Text 2 is my opinion one of most beautiful and useful editors for web developers, of course I really like Notepad++ (but this one, it doesn’t have a version for MAC OSX). A common task when we are creating awesome source codes is trim/delete trailing white spaces, because these are not good and even…
This short script could help you find blank lines at the beginning or the end of a set of files (in this case in the same directory where you run this script). for f in `find . -type f`; do for t in head tail; do $t -1 $f |egrep ‘^[ ]*$’ >/dev/null && echo…