You can do this with the `scp` command, which uses the ssh protocol to copy files across machines. It extends the syntax of `cp` to allow references to other systems:

    scp username1@hostname1:/path/to/file username2@hostname2:/path/to/other/file

Copy something from this machine to some other machine:

    scp /path/to/local/file username@hostname:/path/to/remote/file

Copy something from another machine to this machine:

    scp username@hostname:/path/to/remote/file /path/to/local/file

Copy with a port number specified:

    scp -P 1234 username@hostname:/path/to/remote/file /path/to/local/file


First zip or gzip the folders:  
Use the following command:   

&gt; zip -r NameYouWantForZipFile.zip foldertozip/   

or    

&gt;tar -pvczf BackUpDirectory.tar.gz /path/to/directory  

for gzip compression use SCP:   

&gt; scp username@yourserver.com:~/serverpath/public_html ~/Desktop


You may also want to look at rsync if you&#39;re doing a lot of files.

If you&#39;re going to making a lot of changes and want to keep your directories and files in sync, you may want to use a version control system like Subversion or Git.  See http://xoa.petdance.com/How_to:_Keep_your_home_directory_in_Subversion

Is there a way to remove the default blue hyperlink colour from a telephone number when viewed on an iPhone? Like a specific Mobile Safari tag or CSS to add?

I only have this in place for the number:

    &lt;p id=&quot;phone-text&quot;&gt;Call us on &lt;strong&gt;+44 (0)20 7194 8000&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

And there are no hyperlinks but iPhone still renders this text number as a hyperlink.  I have this rendering issue on some of my websites but can&#39;t see why this is occurring.

I did read this post:

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/3712475/mobile-html-rendering-numbers

But is that the only solution possible? 


How do I remove the blue styling of telephone numbers on iPhone/iOS?

I need to add the following line to the end of a config file:

    include &quot;/configs/projectname.conf&quot;

to a file called `lighttpd.conf`

I am looking into using `sed` to do this, but I can&#39;t work out how.

How would I only insert it if the line doesn&#39;t already exist?

Appending a line to a file only if it does not already exist

I&#39;m trying to copy my .profile, .rvm and .ssh folders/files to a new computer and keep getting a &quot;not a regular file&quot; response. I know how to use the `cp` and `ssh` commands but I&#39;m not sure how to use them in order to transfer files from one computer to another.

Any help would be great, thanks!

How to copy files across computers using SSH and MAC OS X Terminal

<p>I'm trying to copy my .profile, .rvm and .ssh folders/files to a new computer and keep getting a "not a regular file" response. I know how to use the <code>cp</code> and <code>ssh</code> commands but I'm not sure how to use them in order to transfer files from one computer to another.</p>
<p>Any help would be great, thanks!</p>


If you call the top command, you get all the running processes. But how can I *limit* the output only *to a certain process name like &quot;java&quot;*?

I&#39;ve tried this 
 **top -l 2 | grep java**
but in this way you get only snapshots and not a continuously updated list. And **top -l 0 | grep java** is not really clear.

Limit the output of the TOP command to a specific process name

I have a file in my `~/Sites` directory that works fine when I browse to it through `coderama.local/~coderama/index2.php`

Now I want to get tricky and move my `index2.php` file to somewhere else on my system, so I do this by creating a symbolic link. However, when I try to access `coderama.local/~coderama/index2.php` I now get the following error.

Any ideas anyone?

Thanks!

&gt; ### Forbidden
&gt; You don&#39;t have permission to access /~coderama/index2.php on this server.

Creating a symbolic link in Sites directory

Where is Maven&#39;s settings.xml located on Mac OS?

When I try to build the following program:


    #include &lt;stdio.h&gt;
    
    int main(void)
    {
      printf(&quot;hello world\n&quot;);
      return 0;
    }

On OS X 10.6.4, with the following flags:

    gcc -static -o blah blah.c

It returns this:

    ld: library not found for -lcrt0.o
    collect2: ld returned 1 exit status

Has anyone else encountered this, or is it something that noone else has been affected with yet?  Any fixes?

Thanks



ld: library not found for -lcrt0.o on OSX 10.6 with gcc/clang -static flag

On Linux you can convert a date like &quot;2010-10-02&quot; to a unix timestamp in shell script by

    date -d &quot;2010-10-02&quot; &quot;+%s&quot;

Since Mac OS does not have the equivalent **-d** for **date**. How do you go about converting a date to a unix timestamp in a shell script.

How to convert DATE to UNIX TIMESTAMP in shell script on MacOS

    % cat temp
    $$$ hello1
    $$  hello2
        hello3
    ##  hello4
        hello5 $$$
    % cat temp | grep &quot;$$$&quot;
    Illegal variable name.
    % cat temp | grep &quot;\$\$\$&quot;
    Variable name must contain alphanumeric characters.
    %

I want to grep for `$$$` and I expect the result to be

    % cat temp | grep &lt;what should go here?&gt;
    $$$ hello1
        hello5 $$$
    %

To differentiate, I have marked the prompt as `%`.

  - What is the problem here?
  - What should the **grep string** be?

How to grep for the dollar symbol ($)?

I need a one-liner to remove the first five characters on any line of a text file. How can I do that with sed?

Delete the first five characters on any line of a text file in Linux with sed

I have two text files, each of them contains an information by line such like that

    file1.txt            file2.txt
    ----------           ---------
    linef11              linef21
    linef12              linef22
    linef13              linef23
     .                    .
     .                    .
     .                    .

I would like to merge theses files lines by lines using a bash script in order to obtain:

    fileresult.txt
    --------------
    linef11     linef21
    linef12     linef22
    linef13     linef23
     .           .
     .           .
     .           .

How can this be done in Bash?

How to merge two files line by line in Bash

I installed SVN on a Ubuntu machine and I can&#39;t get my head around something.

Whenever I checkout something from the terminal I get this error about saving a non-encrypted password:

    -----------------------------------------------------------------------
    ATTENTION!  Your password for authentication realm:
    
       &lt;[...]&gt; Subversion Repository
    
    can only be stored to disk
    unencrypted!  You are advised to
    configure your system so that
    Subversion can store passwords
    encrypted, if possible.  See the
    documentation for details.
    
    You can avoid future appearances of
    this warning by setting the value of
    the &#39;store-plaintext-passwords&#39; option
    to either &#39;yes&#39; or &#39;no&#39; in
    &#39;/home/[...]/.subversion/servers&#39;.
    -----------------------------------------------------------------------

I goggled it a bit but I couldn&#39;t find anything useful. I found one topic where it said this was a client issue, not a server one, but I&#39;m still not convinced.

It says &quot;configure your system&quot;; what exactly does it mean by that? The server or the client? If I&#39;m the server, is there anything I can do about it? besides hiding the warning (like it says)...

Thanks!

SVN encrypted password store

How do I read an image file and decode it using Python?

How do I read an image file using Python?

In Java, I want to delete all the contents that are present in a folder which includes files and folders. 

    public void startDeleting(String path) {
    		List&lt;String&gt; filesList = new ArrayList&lt;String&gt;();
    		List&lt;String&gt; folderList = new ArrayList&lt;String&gt;();
    		fetchCompleteList(filesList, folderList, path);
    		for(String filePath : filesList) {
    			File tempFile = new File(filePath);
    			tempFile.delete();
    		}
    		for(String filePath : folderList) {
    			File tempFile = new File(filePath);
    			tempFile.delete();
    		}
    	}
	
	private void fetchCompleteList(List&lt;String&gt; filesList, 
        List&lt;String&gt; folderList, String path) {
		File file = new File(path);
		File[] listOfFile = file.listFiles();
		for(File tempFile : listOfFile) {
			if(tempFile.isDirectory()) {
				folderList.add(tempFile.getAbsolutePath());
				fetchCompleteList(filesList, 
                    folderList, tempFile.getAbsolutePath());
			} else {
				filesList.add(tempFile.getAbsolutePath());
			}
			                            
		}
		
	}


This code does not work, what is the best way to do this?

deleting folder from java

I accidentally added, committed and pushed a huge binary file with my very latest commit to a Git repository.

How can I make Git remove the object(s) that was/were created for that commit so my ``.git`` directory shrinks to a sane size again?

**Edit**: Thanks for your answers; I tried several solutions. None worked. For example the one from GitHub removed the files from the history, but the ``.git`` directory size hasn&#39;t decreased:

    $ BADFILES=$(find test_data -type f -exec echo -n &quot;&#39;{}&#39; &quot; \;)
    
    $ git filter-branch --index-filter &quot;git rm -rf --cached --ignore-unmatch $BADFILES&quot; HEAD
    Rewrite 14ed3f41474f0a2f624a440e5a106c2768edb67b (66/66)
    rm &#39;test_data/images/001.jpg&#39;
    [...snip...]
    rm &#39;test_data/images/281.jpg&#39;
    Ref &#39;refs/heads/master&#39; was rewritten
    
    $ git log -p # looks nice
    
    $ rm -rf .git/refs/original/
    $ git reflog expire --all
    $ git gc --aggressive --prune
    Counting objects: 625, done.
    Delta compression using up to 2 threads.
    Compressing objects: 100% (598/598), done.
    Writing objects: 100% (625/625), done.
    Total 625 (delta 351), reused 0 (delta 0)
    
    $ du -hs .git
    174M    .git
    $ # still 175 MB :-(

How to remove unused objects from a git repository?

Say I have too programs `a` and `b` that I can run with `./a` and `./b`.

Is it possible to diff their outputs without first writing to temporary files?

Diff output from two programs without temporary files

Is there anything built into `System.IO.Path` that gives me just the filepath?

For example, if I have a `string` 

&gt; @&quot;c:\webserver\public\myCompany\configs\promo.xml&quot;,

 

is there any BCL method that will give me 

&gt; &quot;c:\webserver\public\myCompany\configs\&quot;?

Get full path without filename from path that includes filename

I read this somewhere a while ago but cant seem to find it. I am trying to find a command that  will execute commands in the terminal and then output the result.

For example: the script will be:

    command &#39;ls -l&#39;

It will out the result of running that command in the terminal



Python Script execute commands in Terminal

I have a database that I created using the CREATE DATABASE statement in the terminal and I have a .sql file full of statements creating tables and rows.

I just wanted to know what was the command line to execute that .sql on the database I created?

Execute SQL script to create tables and rows

What type of parameter/flag can I use with the Unix `find` command so that I search executables?



Search for executable files using find command

How can I increase the cursor speed in terminal?
I have Mac OS X by the way.
It would also be interesting to know it for Linux.

I don&#39;t know what I should search for in Google (or what you like).


How can I increase the cursor speed in terminal?

I want to copy all files in a directory except some files in a specific sub-directory.
I have noticed that `cp` command didn&#39;t have the `--exclude` option.
So, how can I achieve this?

How to use &#39;cp&#39; command to exclude a specific directory?

Frequently, my workflow involves data cleaning/munging in an IPython shell. This has become particularly wonderful since IPython version 5.0 with all the great [upgrades to the terminal interface](http://ipython.readthedocs.io/en/stable/whatsnew/version5.html#new-terminal-interface). So, let&#39;s say I make an attempt at sprucing up some piece of unstructured data:

    In [11]: for i, (num, header, txt) in enumerate(data):
        ...:     header = [e.strip() for e in header.strip().split(&#39;\n&#39;)]
        ...:     header[4] = header[4].strip(&#39;,&#39;).split(&#39;,&#39;)
        ...:     data[i] = (num, header, txt)
        ...:

Fantastic, it works! But now, I would really like to add this to a script in my editor. If I copy and paste from my terminal, I capture all the junk on the left. I can clean this up more-or-less easily in an editor, but it would be great if I could copy the code directly to my clipboard from the terminal without touching the mouse and without grabbing the extra stuff either. Is there such a functionality in IPython?

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How do I remove the blue styling of telephone numbers on iPhone/iOS?

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