Rex - Remote Execution
(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/
Web Site: http://rexify.org/
IRC: irc.freenode.net #rex
Bug Tracker: https://github.com/RexOps/Rex/issues
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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.
This function is deprecated since 0.28! See Rex::Commands::connection.
Returns the current connection as a hashRef.
The server name
1 if it is a ssh connection, 0 if not.
Returns 1 if the current connection is a ssh connection. 0 if not.
Returns 1 if the current connection is local. Otherwise 0.
Returns 1 if the current operation is executed within sudo.
Returns the sftp object for the current ssh connection.
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");
Many thanks to the contributors for their work. Please see CONTRIBUTORS file for a complete list.
Rex is a free software, licensed under: The Apache License, Version 2.0, January 2004
To install Rex, copy and paste the appropriate command in to your terminal.
cpanm
cpanm Rex
CPAN shell
perl -MCPAN -e shell install Rex
For more information on module installation, please visit the detailed CPAN module installation guide.