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Curated list of production-ready BASH scripts and coding solutions.

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Deploy Static Web Content with Rsync

Efficiently deploy static website files from a local directory to a remote server using rsync, ensuring only changed files are transferred for faster updates.

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Load Project Environment Variables from .env File

Safely load environment variables from a .env file into the current shell session, crucial for local development and CI/CD pipelines in web projects.

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Perform HTTP Request and Inspect Response with cURL

Use cURL within a Bash script to make HTTP GET requests, displaying full response headers and the body, essential for debugging web services and APIs.

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Enforce Git Commit Message Format with a Hook

Implement a `commit-msg` Git hook in Bash to validate commit messages against a regex pattern, ensuring consistent, readable, and structured commit history.

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Verify Required Command Line Tools Availability

A Bash script to check for the presence of essential command-line tools like `node` or `docker`, notifying users if any are missing to ensure proper development environment setup.

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Simple Web Service Control Script

Create a basic Bash script to manage a web service, providing convenient start, stop, and status functionalities using `nohup` for background execution.

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Automate Full Website Backups (Files & DB)

Create a robust bash script to automate daily backups of your web application's files and MySQL/PostgreSQL database, storing them with timestamps for recovery.

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Deploy Website Files with Rsync

Efficiently deploy your website's updated files to a remote server using rsync over SSH, ensuring only changed files are transferred for faster deployments.

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Monitor Web Service Health with HTTP Status

Create a bash script to periodically check the HTTP status code of a web service endpoint and report if it's down or returning error codes (e.g., 4xx, 5xx).

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Parse API JSON Responses with JQ

Use a bash script with `jq` to extract, filter, and transform specific data from JSON API responses, enabling efficient command-line data processing and automation.

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Auto-Cleanup Old Log Files

Implement a bash script to automatically delete log files older than a specified number of days, freeing up valuable disk space on your web server and preventing log bloat.

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Parse Command Line Arguments in Bash

Learn to parse command-line arguments using `getopts` in Bash, enabling flexible and configurable script execution for various web development automation tasks and utilities.

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