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Commander is a simple command wrapper, which makes system commands available as static methods.

Install

Install via Composer:

1. Add this to your composer.json:

{
    "require": {
        "chh/commander": "*@dev"
    }
}

2. Then run this in your project directory:

# You can skip this if you already have composer
wget http://getcomposer.org/composer.phar
php composer.phar install

3. Put this in your code:

require "vendor/autoload.php";

Usage

Commander makes system commands available as static methods of the Commander class. When a command is called as method, then Commander looks up the method name in your PATH environment variable:

<?php
use Commander as cmd;

echo cmd::ifconfig();

To call commands with dashes in their name, just substitute the dashes with underscores when calling the method. To call apt-get you would call the apt_get method. Commander looks first for apt_get and then when it does not find this command, then it looks again with the underscores replaced by dashes.

cmd::apt_get("install", "openarena");

All arguments passed to the method call get passed on to the system command as arguments.

Flags

To pass flags, pass them as key-value pairs as first arguemnt:

# apt-get -y upgrade
cmd::apt_get(array('y' => true), "upgrade");

# rm -r -f /some/dir
cmd::rm(array('r' => true, 'f' => true), "/some/dir");

You can pass flags as part of the argument list too:

# git clone --branch development git://github.com/CHH/Commander
cmd::git("clone", "--branch", "development", "git://github.com/CHH/Commander");

# rm -rf /some/dir
cmd::rm("-rf", "/some/dir");

Weird Names or absolute paths

To call commands with their absolute path, or commands which contain some really weird characters retrieve a command instance with the command() method:

$ffmpeg = cmd::command("/usr/local/custom-ffmpeg/bin/ffmpeg");
$ffmpeg($movieFile);

Piping

Piping is done by function composition:

# Removes all "require_once" occurences and comments them out.
cmd::xargs(
    cmd::find($sourceDir, "-print0", "-name", "*.php"), 
    "-0",
    "sed", "-E", "-i", "-e", 's/^(require_once)/\/\/ \1/g'
);

Errors

When a command exits with an exit status greater than Zero, then an Commander\ErrorException is thrown. This exception has the code set to the command's exit status and has a getErrorOutput() method which returns everything the command wrote to STDERR.

License

The MIT License

Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions:

The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in all copies or substantial portions of the Software.

THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHORS OR COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM, OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN THE SOFTWARE.

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