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  • Committer: Bazaar Package Importer
  • Author(s): Hilko Bengen
  • Date: 2011-10-20 13:13:00 UTC
  • mto: (1.2.1 upstream) (15.1.1 sid)
  • mto: This revision was merged to the branch mainline in revision 11.
  • Revision ID: james.westby@ubuntu.com-20111020131300-vtuaa253sbrvmn7b
Tags: upstream-1.12.8
Import upstream version 1.12.8

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Guestfish client and server versions must match exactly.
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=head2 USING REMOTE CONTROL ROBUSTLY FROM SHELL SCRIPTS
 
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From Bash, you can use the following code which creates a guestfish
 
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instance, correctly quotes the command line, handles failure to start, and
 
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cleans up guestfish when the script exits:
 
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 #!/bin/bash -
 
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 set -e
 
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 guestfish[0]="guestfish"
 
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 guestfish[1]="--listen"
 
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 guestfish[2]="--ro"
 
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 guestfish[3]="-a"
 
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 guestfish[4]="disk.img"
 
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 GUESTFISH_PID=
 
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 eval $("${guestfish[@]}")
 
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 if [ -z "$GUESTFISH_PID" ]; then
 
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     echo "error: guestfish didn't start up, see error messages above"
 
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     exit 1
 
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 fi
 
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 cleanup_guestfish ()
 
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 {
 
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     guestfish --remote -- exit >/dev/null 2>&1 ||:
 
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 trap cleanup_guestfish EXIT ERR
 
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 guestfish --remote -- run
 
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 # ...
 
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=head2 REMOTE CONTROL RUN COMMAND HANGING
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Using the C<run> (or C<launch>) command remotely in a command substitution