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# Mixlib::ShellOut
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**Umbrella Project**: [Chef Foundation](https://github.com/chef/chef-oss-practices/blob/master/projects/chef-foundation.md)
**Project State**: [Active](https://github.com/chef/chef-oss-practices/blob/master/repo-management/repo-states.md#active)
**Issues [Response Time Maximum](https://github.com/chef/chef-oss-practices/blob/master/repo-management/repo-states.md)**: 14 days
**Pull Request [Response Time Maximum](https://github.com/chef/chef-oss-practices/blob/master/repo-management/repo-states.md)**: 14 days
Provides a simplified interface to shelling out while still collecting both standard out and standard error and providing full control over environment, working directory, uid, gid, etc.
No means for passing input to the subprocess is provided.
## Example
### Simple Shellout
Invoke find(1) to search for .rb files:
```ruby
require 'mixlib/shellout'
find = Mixlib::ShellOut.new("find . -name '*.rb'")
find.run_command
```
If all went well, the results are on `stdout`
```ruby
puts find.stdout
```
`find(1)` prints diagnostic info to STDERR:
```ruby
puts "error messages" + find.stderr
```
Raise an exception if it didn't exit with 0
```ruby
find.error!
```
### Advanced Shellout
In addition to the command to run there are other options that can be set to change the shellout behavior. The complete list of options can be found here: https://github.com/chef/mixlib-shellout/blob/master/lib/mixlib/shellout.rb
Run a command as the `www` user with no extra ENV settings from `/tmp` with a 1s timeout
```ruby
cmd = Mixlib::ShellOut.new("apachectl", "start", :user => 'www', :environment => nil, :cwd => '/tmp', :timeout => 1)
cmd.run_command # etc.
```
### STDIN Example
Invoke crontab to edit user cron:
```ruby
# :input only supports simple strings
crontab_lines = [ "* * * * * /bin/true", "* * * * * touch /tmp/here" ]
crontab = Mixlib::ShellOut.new("crontab -l -u #{@new_resource.user}", :input => crontab_lines.join("\n"))
crontab.run_command
```
### Windows Impersonation Example
Invoke "whoami.exe" to demonstrate running a command as another user:
```ruby
whoami = Mixlib::ShellOut.new("whoami.exe", :user => "username", :domain => "DOMAIN", :password => "password")
whoami.run_command
```
Invoke "whoami.exe" with elevated privileges:
```ruby
whoami = Mixlib::ShellOut.new("whoami.exe", :user => "username", :domain => "DOMAIN", :password => "password", :elevated => true)
whoami.run_command
```
**NOTE:** The user 'admin' must have the 'Log on as a batch job' permission and the user chef is running as must have the 'Replace a process level token' and 'Adjust Memory Quotas for a process' permissions.
## Platform Support
Mixlib::ShellOut does a standard fork/exec on Unix, and uses the Win32 API on Windows. There is not currently support for JRuby.
## See Also
- `Process.spawn` in Ruby 1.9+
- [https://github.com/rtomayko/posix-spawn](https://github.com/rtomayko/posix-spawn)
## Contributing
For information on contributing to this project see <https://github.com/chef/chef/blob/master/CONTRIBUTING.md>
## License
- Copyright:: Copyright (c) 2011-2016 Chef Software, Inc.
- License:: Apache License, Version 2.0
```text
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you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
You may obtain a copy of the License at
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Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
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```
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