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Search your FTP server at lightning speed

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Christophe
Markdown, WSL and Docker lover ~ PHP developer ~ Insatiable curious.

Search your FTP server at lightning speed

Did you know that using WinSCP, you can run a search on your FTP to find all the documents containing a given string? It's native in WinSCP; nothing more to install but...

However, it's insanely slow; let's see how we can do it better and almost instantaneous.

FTP - Remove files and folders at light speed

ยท 2 min read
Christophe
Markdown, WSL and Docker lover ~ PHP developer ~ Insatiable curious.

FTP - Remove files and folders at light speed

Have you ever deleted a website from your FTP client? It's easy, just select the folder containing the website and press the delete key.

Easy, simple and ... so slow. It takes ages to suppress files / folders. Several dozen minutes! Ouch.

If you've a SSH connection to your web server and if you're comfortable with it; you can rm -rf the folder and it'll be done in seconds.

But what if you don't have SSH or fear to make errors?

There is an alternative, the erase.php script.