vdn-tools

A collection of scripts for Virtual Didactic Network (VDN).

Most components can be used individually without the other scripts. You will find here a script to complete the commands with Bash, and a way to use some programs such as rsync, drone or php.

Bash completion script

This script can complete the most commonly used commands in VDN like vdn-ssh, vdn-start or vdn-scp.

It can complete network and system names. Guest filenames can also be completed like the scp command.

Locally

Source the completion/vdn-completion.bash file in your .bashrc:

. ~/path/to/completions/vdn-completion.bash

Globally

Copy the vdn-completion.bash file in /usr/local/share/bash-completion/completions/ and link all the commands:

cp completion/vdn-completion.bash /usr/local/share/bash-completion/completions/vdn
grep 'complete -F \w* [a-z-]*' -- completion/vdn-completion.bash | awk '{ print "/usr/local/share/bash-completion/completions/"$NF }' | xargs -I {} ln -s /usr/local/share/bash-completion/completions/vdn {}

vdn-drone

Execute your pipeline locally.

Run the pipeline named default:

vdn-drone exec --pipeline default

vdn-php

Run PHP 8.2 in your current host directory. It forwards the server port and mounts the files in the VDN guest system.

Run the PHP integrated server:

vdn-php -S 0.0.0.0:8000
#vdn-php -S localhost:8000 # This will not work, the server needs to listen on all addresses!

On your host system, use your favorite browser and check your website at http://localhost:8000.

vdn-rsync

Copy files between the host and the guest system using rsync.

With a script

Use the bin/vdn-rsync script to have a nice interface with rsync.

vdn-rsync -av src root@bigboss:

Add it to your path:

PATH="$PATH:~/path/to/vdn-tools/bin/"

Without a script

Specify the vdn-ssh command with rsync.

rsync -av src -e vdn-ssh root@bigboss: