Question

I need to write a script that is able to logon to an svn repository and checkout a config file for a script I am running on a lot of servers.

Perl is the only scripting language that I can use but I’m a complete novice in perl.

Could someone point me in the right direction and maybe give me some links with examples and/or documentation.

UPDATE:I can’t install svn on the remote servers. Is it impossible to do without installing svn?

Gísli

Answer 1

Use LWP::Simple and fetch it over HTTP:

#!/usr/bin/perl

use LWP::Simple;

my $config = get("http://username:[e-mail]/configfile/");

or just use wget to fetch it before launching your script.