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Rex-1.3.2
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NAME

Rex - Remote Execution

DESCRIPTION

(R)?ex is a small script to ease the execution of remote commands. You can write small tasks in a file named Rexfile.

You can find examples and howtos on http://rexify.org/

GETTING HELP

SYNOPSIS

use strict;
use warnings;

user "root";
password "ch4ngem3";

desc "Show Unix version";
task "uname", sub {
   say run "uname -a";
};

bash# rex -H "server[01..10]" uname

See Rex::Commands for a list of all commands you can use.

CLASS METHODS

get_current_connection

This function is deprecated since 0.28! See Rex::Commands::connection.

Returns the current connection as a hashRef.

server

The server name

ssh

1 if it is a ssh connection, 0 if not.

is_ssh

Returns 1 if the current connection is a ssh connection. 0 if not.

is_local

Returns 1 if the current connection is local. Otherwise 0.

is_sudo

Returns 1 if the current operation is executed within sudo.

get_sftp

Returns the sftp object for the current ssh connection.

connect

Use this function to create a connection if you use Rex as a library.

use Rex;
use Rex::Commands::Run;
use Rex::Commands::Fs;

Rex::connect(
  server    => "remotehost",
  user      => "root",
  password   => "f00b4r",
  private_key => "/path/to/private/key/file",
  public_key  => "/path/to/public/key/file",
);

if(is_file("/foo/bar")) {
  print "Do something...\n";
}

my $output = run("uptime");

CONTRIBUTORS

Many thanks to the contributors for their work. Please see CONTRIBUTORS file for a complete list.

LICENSE

Rex is a free software, licensed under: The Apache License, Version 2.0, January 2004