Useful Unix commands

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Create archive:

tar -czvf theme.tgz theme_directory

v - to show process

To unarchive:

tar -xvf theme.tgz

To copy file to the server with SCP:

scp theme.tgz ubuntu@10.10.0.1:/var/www/drupal/web/themes/

Add the user ubuntu to the www-data group:

sudo usermod -a -G www-data ubuntu
Verify that the users have been added to the group:
groups ubuntu

The following command list all directory names in a directory in one line, separated by spaces: 

ls -d */ | cut -f1 -d'/' | paste -sd " " -