Ever wished the compactness of shell scripts be put into a real programming
language? Say hello to Plumbum Shell Combinators. Plumbum (Latin for lead,
which was used to create pipes back in the day) is a small yet feature-rich
library for shell script-like programs in Python. The motto of the library is
"Never write shell scripts again", and thus it attempts to mimic the shell
syntax ("shell combinators") where it makes sense, while keeping it all
Pythonic and cross-platform.
Apart from shell-like syntax and handy shortcuts, the library provides local
and remote command execution (over SSH), local and remote file-system paths,
easy working-directory and environment manipulation,
and a programmatic Command-Line Interface (CLI) application toolkit.
Binary packages can be installed with the high-level tool pkgin (which can be installed with pkg_add) or pkg_add(1) (installed by default). The NetBSD packages collection is also designed to permit easy installation from source.
The pkg_admin audit command locates any installed package which has been mentioned in security advisories as having vulnerabilities.
Please note the vulnerabilities database might not be fully accurate, and not every bug is exploitable with every configuration.
Problem reports, updates or suggestions for this package should be reported with send-pr.