This module aims to manage Unix-likes operating systems. It manage both local or remote host in the same way. Commands can be executed interactively or not, and the result is a list of three elements:

• the status of the command (boolean based on return code)
• the standard output (stdout)
• the error output (stderr)

For executed commands on localhost, the module used is subprocess and for remotes hosts, the module used is paramiko.

Code is available on Github (http://github.com/fmenabe/python-unix)

• Manage localhost (subprocess) and remote hosts (SSH; paramiko) uniformly.
• Use controls for managing some behaviour (decoding outputs, locale, ...).
• Implements basic commands for manipulating files and directories (open, copy, mkdir, ...).

• Organize commands in objects accessible via properties:

  • path API (exists, isfile, ...)
  • remote API for copying file using from one host to another
  • users and groups API

• Manage Linux hosts:

  • chroot
  • autodetecting the distribution
  • manage arch, debian, ubuntu, redhat, centos, ...

• Initial version.