The ServerGrove blog has posted a new tutorial with a selection of useful command line tools to help you in working with your PHP applications. None of them are PHP specific but are Unix-based commands that can help in every day development.

Linux provides a lot of interesting command-line tools that we can use when working with PHP projects. In this post we give you some useful commands.

They include examples of commands that can help with:

• Find all PHP files in the current directory
• Check the syntax of all PHP files in the current directory
• Get the size of each Composer dependency
• Find suspicious PHP files
• Find files with abstract classes
• List PHP settings for the xdebug extension
• Find empty files and/or directories
• List files currently open by a PHP process

As mentioned, most of the tools themselves are not PHP specific but these example commands do relate to things that are more in a PHP context.