Bash tricks for web maintenance

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Article from Issue 290/2025
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I was recently asked to help with some issues on a personal website. After reviewing the problems, I was happily surprised to find that I could solve most of the issues with some simple Bash commands (Figure 1).

Figure 1: Use Bash for common web problems.

In this article, I will look at how to use a few lines of Bash to:

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