mccabe615

Command Execution

exec           - Returns last line of commands output
passthru       - Passes commands output directly to the browser
system         - Passes commands output directly to the browser and returns last line
shell_exec     - Returns commands output
\`\` (backticks) - Same as shell_exec()
popen          - Opens read or write pipe to process of a command
proc_open      - Similar to popen() but greater degree of control
pcntl_exec - Executes a program

elordahl

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# Ansible playbook to run Windows Update and restart, if required
#
# http://docs.ansible.com/ansible/win_updates_module.html
# https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/win_reboot_module.html

- name:  Windows Update
  hosts: all
  gather_facts: false
  tasks:

KartikTalwar

The fastest remote directory rsync over ssh archival I can muster (40MB/s over 1gb NICs)

This creates an archive that does the following:

rsync (Everyone seems to like -z, but it is much slower for me)

• a: archive mode - rescursive, preserves owner, preserves permissions, preserves modification times, preserves group, copies symlinks as symlinks, preserves device files.
• H: preserves hard-links
• A: preserves ACLs