I recently got the following error while uploading media to my wordpress site: Unable to create directory uploads/2016/06. Is its parent directory writable by the server? Here are the steps to fix the issue: Possible Issue 1: Incorrect Directory pointed to in the settings: Open your WordPress Admin page (this is usually at /wp-admin) Hover […]
Here is a quick cheat-sheet on How To Compress files in Linux & Unix Zip zip archive file1 file2 file3 Compresses file1 file2 file3 into an achive with filename archive.zip zip archive * Compresses all files in the current directory into an achive with filename archive.zip zip -r archive dir Compresses the directory dir(and its […]
Ubuntu has a neat application to split large files into smaller chunks(for emails or to burn into disks). The application splits files into the format <filename>.<extension>.<part>. The same application can be used to rejoin the files to recreate the original larger file. Spliting: To be able to split file you need the application “lxsplit”. It […]