Get your public IP via shell

To get your public IP you can use websites like www.whatismypublicip.com/ or just google for it (http://lmgtfy.com/?q=public+ip) But you can also get your public IP via the following Linux shell  command (the smart way :-D): $> curl ifconfig.me/all This gives you an output like that: ip_addr: 31.18.198.134 remote_host: ip123456.dynamic.kabel-deutschland.de user_agent: curl/7.35.0 port: 47745 lang: connection: keep_alive: encoding: […]

Create your own Backend theme

When developing Magento Backend functionalities, sometimes you need to add own layout files or templates. In these cases it is a good idea to create a new Backend theme under adminhtml and to modify the Magento configuration to lookup layout files and templates in this new theme before searching in the default one. Therefore you have to create […]

Rename to lower case

To rename all jpg-files in a folder to its lower cased equivalent, you can run this little shell script: $> for i in folderpath/*.jpg; do mv -v $i `echo $i | tr ‘[:upper:]’ ‘[:lower:]’`; done The -v param of mv will only give you a list of renamed files.