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CDEPLOY(1)		    General Commands Manual		    CDEPLOY(1)

NAME
       cdeploy -- deploy a set of configuration	files to a target file system

SYNOPSIS
       cdeploy	[-chnvDSX]  [-b	 backup-dir] [-d destdir] [-u user] [-g	group]
	       [-m mode] [-x pattern]

DESCRIPTION
       The cdeploy script was written to deploy	configuration  files  (or  any
       other kind of files) from a local directory tree	("source tree")	to an-
       other  directory	 tree  ("target	tree", by default the root of the file
       system).

       cdeploy sticks to the layout of the source tree.	  Missing  directories
       in the target tree will be created (if permission is granted to do so);
       already	existing files will be replaced	by the version from the	source
       tree. Source files replacing existing target  files  will  be  deployed
       with owner, group and permission	of the original	target file.

       cdeploy	creates	 a  backup  of	the original file before replacing it.
       These backups are stored	as freshly created source  tree.  In  case  of
       trouble	with  the deployed files, the backup can be restored by	simply
       deploying it like any other source tree.

OPTIONS
       The following options are available:

       -b backup-dir
	       Specify a location where	the backup will	 be  created.  By  de-
	       fault, cdeploy uses ~/.cdeploy to store backups.

       -c      Only  deploy  files  if the source file differs from the	target
	       file.  Equity of	source and target file are tested by comparing
	       their MD5 fingerprint generated by OpenSSL dgst(1)

       -D      Do not invoke cap_mkdb(1) after having deployed a database tem-
	       plate file. This	is the default behaviour on all	systems	except
	       FreeBSD.

       -d destdir
	       Set destdir as root directory for the  deployment  target.  The
	       complete	 source	directory tree will be deployed	into the given
	       target directory.  cdeploy uses / as default deployment target.

       -g group
	       Deploy files with group group if	automatic detection fails  (e.
	       g. if there is not yet a	target file to replace)

       -h      Print a help message including a	short usage summary and	exit.

       -l loglevel
	       Set  log	 level to loglevel.  Valid log levels are DEBUG, INFO,
	       WARN and	ERROR.	This option controls the amount	of information
	       dumped to stdout(4).  By	default, the log level is set to WARN.

       -m mode
	       Deploy files with mode mode if automatic	detection fails	(e. g.
	       if there	is not yet a target file to replace)

       -n      This option suppresses any escape sequences in the output  gen-
	       erated by cdeploy.  It is particularly useful when working on a
	       terminal	 which	cannot process color escape sequences, or when
	       the output of cdeploy gets redirected to	a file.

	       Please note: This option	should be specified as early as	possi-
	       ble since before	it has been processed, any output  will	 still
	       contain escape sequences.

       -S      This  flag causes cdeploy to run	in simulation mode. In simula-
	       tion mode, no modifications to the target  directory  structure
	       will  be	made. However, cdeploy will test whether all necessary
	       modifications could be made.

       -u user
	       Deploy files with owner user if automatic detection  fails  (e.
	       g. if there is not yet a	target file to replace)

       -v      Print version information and exit.

       -X      Ignore  the  exclusion  pattern.	 By  default, cdeploy excludes
	       files and directories originating from common  version  control
	       systems	like  CVS,  Subversion,	Mercurial and Git. This	option
	       turns off exclusion completely.

       -x pattern
	       Exclude	all  files  matching  pattern  from  being   deployed.
	       pattern	may  be	a regular expression; extended regular expres-
	       sions are also supported, as long as  they  are	understood  by
	       grep(1).	 The default exclusion pattern is .svn|.hg|.cvs|.git

EXIT STATUS
       The cdeploy utility exits 0 on success, and >0 if an error occurs.

EXAMPLES
       To deploy the content of	~/config, one would use:

	     cd	~/config
	     cdeploy

       To test which files would be replaced, one would	use:

	     cdeploy -c	-S

       To  skip	 the  creation	of backups (which is actually a	bad idea), one
       would set the backup directory to /dev/null:

	     cdeploy -b	/dev/null

COMPATIBILITY
       Compatibility has been tested with the  FreeBSD	sh(1)  command	inter-
       preter (FreeBSD 7 and 8)	and the	GNU bash(1) (Bourne-Again SHell), ver-
       sion 4.1.5

SEE ALSO
       cap_mkdb(1), grep(1), install(1),

BUGS
       Hopefully none. In case you encounter one, please contact the author.

AUTHOR
       Jesco Freund <aihal@users.sourceforge.net>

FreeBSD	ports 15.0		  May 1, 2010			    CDEPLOY(1)

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