Allows control the travis-ci machine via a text file, as a poor-man's keyboard.

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Allows control the travis-ci machine via a text file, as a poor-man's keyboard.

Note: This is only a hacky example when I got frustrated by the queue time for travis-ci builds.
Run with the URL of the command file as the only argument:

python listen_and_execute.py https://gist.githubusercontent.com/pelson/a9e8b25496309fa2997d/raw/commands.txt

commands.txt

# sudo apt-get install g++-3.4 --force-yes
gcc -v
#exit
locate gcc
#ls /usr/local/bin

ls /usr/bin/*gcc*

/usr/bin/gcc-3.4 -v
/usr/bin/g++-3.4 -v

sudo rm /usr/bin/gcc
sudo rm /usr/bin/g++

sudo ln -s /usr/bin/gcc-3.4 /usr/bin/gcc
sudo ln -s /usr/bin/g++-3.4 /usr/bin/g++

g++ --version
#export CC=gcc-3.4

sudo ln -s /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu /usr/lib64

exit

listen_and_execute.py

import os
import urllib2
import time


def listen_and_execute(url, max_iterations=60, sleep_time=10):
    last_contents = ''

    for i in xrange(max_iterations):
        response = urllib2.urlopen(url)
        contents = response.read().strip()
        if last_contents != contents:
            for command in contents.split('\n'):
                if command == 'exit':
                    print 'Exiting.'
                    exit()
                print 'Executing {}'.format(command)
                os.system(command)
        last_contents = contents
        time.sleep(sleep_time)


if __name__ == '__main__':
    import sys
    url = sys.argv[1]
    listen_and_execute(url)