I find little time these days and I noticed with some annoyance that I was behind with my Wordpress updates. I run a number of sites (13 Wordpress sites alone) and updating from 2.5 -> 2.5.1 is sort of painful and tedious.
So I made a script (most of the domain names are removed but you could add to the list):
sites=(illusoryfollies.com
flanaganclan.com
sarahflanagan.com)
base_path="/var/www/vhosts"
wordpress_download_url="http://wordpress.org/latest.tar.gz"
wordpress_download_file="latest.tar.gz"
wordpress_download_directory="wordpress"
wordpress_database_update_url="wp-admin/upgrade.php?step=1&backto=%2Fwp-admin%2F"
jailed_directory="httpdocs"
temp_directory="wp-temp"
number_of_sites=${#sites[@]}
echo "Updating $number_of_sites websites with the latest version of Wordpress."
for current_site in ${sites[@]}
do
echo "Now processing $current_site..."
echo " Setting up directories..."
if [ -e $base_path/$current_site/$jailed_directory ]
then
echo " !!Detected a jail'ed website..."
mkdir -p $base_path/$current_site/$jailed_directory/$temp_directory
cd $base_path/$current_site/$jailed_directory/$temp_directory
else
mkdir -p $base_path/$current_site/$temp_directory
cd $base_path/$current_site/$temp_directory
fi
echo " Downloading latest version of Wordpress..."
wget -q $wordpress_download_url
echo " Uncompressing..."
tar zxfv $wordpress_download_file > /dev/null
cd $wordpress_download_directory
echo " Copying into existing directory..."
cp -r * ../..
cd ../..
echo " Updating database..."
wget -q "http://$current_site/$wordpress_database_update_url" -O /dev/null
echo " Cleaning up..."
rm -rf $temp_directory
echo "Done processing $current_site."
echo ""
doneNow it takes about 15 seconds to update everyone’s site and it even performs the “Database Upgrade” step (at least for now).
Automation is a good thing. Speaking of which, I’m interested in Capistrano but I still haven’t really done anything with it. It looks like fun… I’ll have to add a post if I have any luck experimenting with it.
Andrew Flanagan on May 10th 2008 in Actual Events, Geekiness
I enjoy having Cygwin installed on Windows and often like to use the shell commands (grep, find, etc.). However, it’s inconvenient to spawn a new terminal window and slog through the often-complex Windows directory structure. Based off of some websites I found, I now have a way to make this work…
Create a batch script file in your Cygwin /bin folder (for me, this is C:\Cygwin\bin) with the following:
@cd /d %1
@bash --rcfile BASCHRC -i
Create a file called “bashcontext.reg” and save the following text into it:
[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Directory\shell\bash]
@="Open Bash shell here"
[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Directory\shell\bash\command]
@="C:\\Cygwin\\bin\\runBash.bat \"%1\""
[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Drive\shell\bash]
@="Open Bash shell here"
[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Drive\shell\bash\command]
@="C:\\Cygwin\\bin\\runBash.bat \"%1\""
[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\*\shell\bash]
@="Open Bash shell here"
[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\*\shell\bash\command]
@="C:\\Cygwin\\bin\\runBash.bat \"%1\""
You can add the registry information by double-clicking the file to run it.
Now on every directory you have a “Open Bash shell here” option that will take you there immediately. Handy!
Here’s a screenshot showing my cluttered context menu:
Andrew Flanagan on November 28th 2007 in Actual Events
I just upgraded to WordPress 2.3 which supports tagging natively. There’s a new spot under the Edit window where you can enter tags. I’m lazy though so I’d like it if it could present me with a list of my tags so I could click and add them automatically… I just modified the code a little bit for one file in Wordpress and it appears to work… here’s what I did.
In the file wp-admin/edit-form-advanced.php, insert the following:
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| <script type="text/javascript">
function setTag(text)
{
var curvalue = document.getElementById('tags-input').value;
if (curvalue == "")
{
document.getElementById('tags-input').value = text;
}
else
{
document.getElementById('tags-input').value = curvalue + ", " + text;
}
}
</script>
<?php
$output = "<legend>";
$tags = (array) get_terms('post_tag', $args);
foreach ($tags as $tag)
{
$output .= "<a href=\"#\" onClick=\"setTag('".$tag->name."')\">".$tag->name."</a>,";
}
$output = substr($output, 0, strlen($output) - 1);
$output .= "</legend>";
echo $output;
?> |
Andrew Flanagan on October 5th 2007 in Actual Events, Geekiness, MetaData
I need to copy all of my FLAC files out of my directory tree but preserve the folder structure that they were in… Here’s my script.
Unfortunately, it’s not a “perfect” solution as there are issues when handling special characters in files (especially newline characters). However, since my file really just have spaces in them, that’s all this was designed to beat.
SOURCEDIR="/var/mirror/Data/Audio/My CD Archive"
TARGETDIR="/var/mirror/FLAC"
mkdir "$TARGETDIR"
find "$SOURCEDIR" -type d | while read DIR; do
if [[ "$DIR" != "$SOURCEDIR" ]]; then
SHORTDIR=`echo $DIR | sed 's/.*///g'`
mkdir "$TARGETDIR/$SHORTDIR"
echo "Now in $DIR"
find "$DIR" -name "*.flac" | while read FILE; do
SHORTFILE=`echo $FILE | sed 's/.*///g'`
echo "Now moving $SHORTFILE"
mv "$FILE" "$TARGETDIR/$SHORTDIR"
done
echo "--------------------"
sleep 1
fi
done
Andrew Flanagan on September 25th 2007 in Actual Events, Geekiness
1. Browse to a site like Amazon.
2. Enter the following into your browser address window
javascript:R=0; x1=.1; y1=.05; x2=.25; y2=.24; x3=1.6; y3=.24; x4=300; y4=200; x5=300; y5=200; DI=document.images; DIL=DI.length; function A(){for(i=0; i-DIL; i++){DIS=DI[ i ].style; DIS.position='absolute'; DIS.left=Math.sin (R*x1+i*x2+x3)*x4+x5; DIS.top=Math.cos(R*y1+i*y2+y3)*y4+y5}R++}setInterval('A()',5); void(0);3. Hit Enter and watch the weirdness.
Andrew Flanagan on September 13th 2007 in Geekiness
