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#!/usr/bin/perl -w
# virt-edit
# Copyright (C) 2009-2011 Red Hat Inc.
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use warnings;
use strict;

use Sys::Guestfs;
use Sys::Guestfs::Lib qw(open_guest);
use Pod::Usage;
use Getopt::Long;
use File::Temp qw/tempfile/;
use File::Basename;
use Locale::TextDomain 'libguestfs';

=encoding utf8

=head1 NAME

virt-edit - Edit a file in a virtual machine

=head1 SYNOPSIS

 virt-edit [--options] domname file

 virt-edit [--options] disk.img [disk.img ...] file

 virt-edit [domname|disk.img] file -e 'expr'

=head1 WARNING

You must I<not> use C<virt-edit> on live virtual machines.  If you do
this, you risk disk corruption in the VM.  C<virt-edit> tries to stop
you from doing this, but doesn't catch all cases.

=head1 DESCRIPTION

C<virt-edit> is a command line tool to edit C<file> where C<file>
exists in the named virtual machine (or disk image).

If you want to just view a file, use L<virt-cat(1)>.

For more complex cases you should look at the L<guestfish(1)> tool
(see L</USING GUESTFISH> below).

C<virt-edit> cannot be used to create a new file, nor to edit
multiple files.  L<guestfish(1)> can do that and much more.

=head1 EXAMPLES

Edit the named files interactively:

 virt-edit mydomain /boot/grub/grub.conf

 virt-edit mydomain /etc/passwd

You can also edit files non-interactively (see
L</NON-INTERACTIVE EDITING> below).
To change the init default level to 5:

 virt-edit mydomain /etc/inittab -e 's/^id:.*/id:5:initdefault:/'

=head1 OPTIONS

=over 4

=cut

my $help;

=item B<--help>

Display brief help.

=cut

my $version;

=item B<--version>

Display version number and exit.

=cut

my $backup;

=item B<--backup extension> | B<-b extension>

Create a backup of the original file I<in the guest disk image>.
The backup has the original filename with C<extension> added.

Usually the first character of C<extension> would be a dot C<.>
so you would write:

 virt-edit -b .orig [etc]

By default, no backup file is made.

=cut

my $uri;

=item B<--connect URI> | B<-c URI>

If using libvirt, connect to the given I<URI>.  If omitted, then we
connect to the default libvirt hypervisor.

If you specify guest block devices directly, then libvirt is not used
at all.

=cut

my $format;

=item B<--format> raw

Specify the format of disk images given on the command line.  If this
is omitted then the format is autodetected from the content of the
disk image.

If disk images are requested from libvirt, then this program asks
libvirt for this information.  In this case, the value of the format
parameter is ignored.

If working with untrusted raw-format guest disk images, you should
ensure the format is always specified.

=cut

my $expr;

=item B<--expr EXPR> | B<-e EXPR>

Instead of launching the external editor, non-interactively
apply the Perl expression C<EXPR> to each line in the file.
See L</NON-INTERACTIVE EDITING> below.

Be careful to properly quote the expression to prevent it from
being altered by the shell.

=back

=cut

GetOptions ("help|?" => \$help,
            "version" => \$version,
            "connect|c=s" => \$uri,
            "format=s" => \$format,
            "expr|e=s" => \$expr,
            "backup|b=s" => \$backup,
    ) or pod2usage (2);
pod2usage (1) if $help;
if ($version) {
    my $g = Sys::Guestfs->new ();
    my %h = $g->version ();
    print "$h{major}.$h{minor}.$h{release}$h{extra}\n";
    exit
}

pod2usage (__"virt-edit: no image, VM names or filenames to edit given")
    if @ARGV <= 1;

my $filename = pop @ARGV;

my $g;
if ($uri) {
    $g = open_guest (\@ARGV, address => $uri, rw => 1, format => $format);
} else {
    $g = open_guest (\@ARGV, rw => 1, format => $format);
}

$g->launch ();

my @roots = $g->inspect_os ();
if (@roots == 0) {
    die __x("{prog}: No operating system could be detected inside this disk image.\n\nThis may be because the file is not a disk image, or is not a virtual machine\nimage, or because the OS type is not understood by libguestfs.\n\nIf you feel this is an error, please file a bug report including as much\ninformation about the disk image as possible.\n",
            prog => basename ($0));
}
if (@roots > 1) {
    die __x("{prog}: multiboot operating systems are not supported.\n",
            prog => basename ($0))
}
my $root = $roots[0];
my %fses = $g->inspect_get_mountpoints ($root);
my @fses = sort { length $a <=> length $b } keys %fses;
foreach (@fses) {
    $g->mount_options ("", $fses{$_}, $_);
}

my ($fh, $tempname) = tempfile (UNLINK => 1);
my $fddev = "/dev/fd/" . fileno ($fh);

# Allow this to fail in case eg. the file does not exist.
$g->download ($filename, $fddev);

close $fh or die "close: $!";

my $do_upload = $tempname;

if (!defined $expr) {
    # Interactively edit the file.
    my $oldctime = (stat ($tempname))[10];

    my $editor = $ENV{EDITOR};
    $editor ||= "vi";
    system ("$editor $tempname") == 0
        or die "edit failed: $editor: $?";

    my $newctime = (stat ($tempname))[10];

    if ($oldctime == $newctime) {
        $do_upload = undef;
        print __"File not changed.\n";
    }
} else {
    my ($fh, $tempout) = tempfile (UNLINK => 1);

    # Apply a Perl expression to the lines of the file.
    open IFILE, $tempname or die "$tempname: $!";
    my $lineno = 0;
    while (<IFILE>) {
        $lineno++;
        eval $expr;
        die if $@;
        print $fh $_ or die "print: $!";
    }
    close $fh or die "close: $!";

    $do_upload = $tempout;
}

if (defined $do_upload) {
    # Upload to a new file, so if it fails we don't end up with
    # a partially written file.  Give the new file a completely
    # random name so we have only a tiny chance of overwriting
    # some existing file.
    my $dirname = $filename;
    $dirname =~ s{/[^/]+$}{/};

    my @chars = ('a'..'z', 'A'..'Z', '0'..'9');
    my $newname = $dirname;
    foreach (0..7) {
        $newname .= $chars[rand @chars];
    }

    $g->upload ($do_upload, $newname);

    # Backup or overwrite?
    $g->mv ($filename, "$filename$backup") if defined $backup;
    $g->mv ($newname, $filename);

    $g->umount_all ();
    $g->sync ();
}

undef $g;

=head1 NON-INTERACTIVE EDITING

C<virt-edit> normally calls out to C<$EDITOR> (or vi) so
the system administrator can interactively edit the file.

There are two ways also to use C<virt-edit> from scripts in order to
make automated edits to files.  (Note that although you I<can> use
C<virt-edit> like this, it's less error-prone to write scripts
directly using the libguestfs API and Augeas for configuration file
editing.)

The first method is to temporarily set C<$EDITOR> to any script or
program you want to run.  The script is invoked as C<$EDITOR tmpfile>
and it should update C<tmpfile> in place however it likes.

The second method is to use the C<-e> parameter of C<virt-edit> to run
a short Perl snippet in the style of L<sed(1)>.  For example to
replace all instances of C<foo> with C<bar> in a file:

 virt-edit domname filename -e 's/foo/bar/'

The full power of Perl regular expressions can be used (see
L<perlre(1)>).  For example to delete root's password you could do:

 virt-edit domname /etc/passwd -e 's/^root:.*?:/root::/'

What really happens is that the snippet is evaluated as a Perl
expression for each line of the file.  The line, including the final
C<\n>, is passed in C<$_> and the expression should update C<$_> or
leave it unchanged.

To delete a line, set C<$_> to the empty string.  For example, to
delete the C<apache> user account from the password file you can do:

 virt-edit mydomain /etc/passwd -e '$_ = "" if /^apache:/'

To insert a line, prepend or append it to C<$_>.  However appending
lines to the end of the file is rather difficult this way since there
is no concept of "last line of the file" - your expression just
doesn't get called again.  You might want to use the first method
(setting C<$EDITOR>) if you want to do this.

The variable C<$lineno> contains the current line number.
As is traditional, the first line in the file is number C<1>.

The return value from the expression is ignored, but the expression
may call C<die> in order to abort the whole program, leaving the
original file untouched.

Remember when matching the end of a line that C<$_> may contain the
final C<\n>, or (for DOS files) C<\r\n>, or if the file does not end
with a newline then neither of these.  Thus to match or substitute
some text at the end of a line, use this regular expression:

 /some text(\r?\n)?$/

Alternately, use the perl C<chomp> function, being careful not to
chomp C<$_> itself (since that would remove all newlines from the
file):

 my $m = $_; chomp $m; $m =~ /some text$/

=head1 USING GUESTFISH

L<guestfish(1)> is a more powerful, lower level tool which you can use
when C<virt-edit> doesn't work.

Using C<virt-edit> is approximately equivalent to doing:

 guestfish --rw -i -d domname edit /file

where C<domname> is the name of the libvirt guest, and C</file> is the
full path to the file.

The command above uses libguestfs's guest inspection feature and so
does not work on guests that libguestfs cannot inspect, or on things
like arbitrary disk images that don't contain guests.  To edit a file
on a disk image directly, use:

 guestfish --rw -a disk.img -m /dev/sda1 edit /file

where C<disk.img> is the disk image, C</dev/sda1> is the filesystem
within the disk image to edit, and C</file> is the full path to the
file.

C<virt-edit> cannot create new files.  Use the guestfish commands
C<touch>, C<write> or C<upload> instead:

 guestfish --rw -i -d domname touch /newfile

 guestfish --rw -i -d domname write /newfile "new content"

 guestfish --rw -i -d domname upload localfile /newfile

C<virt-edit> cannot edit multiple files, but guestfish can
do it like this:

 guestfish --rw -i -d domname edit /file1 : edit /file2

=cut

exit 0;

=head1 ENVIRONMENT VARIABLES

=over 4

=item C<EDITOR>

If set, this string is used as the editor.  It may contain arguments,
eg. C<"emacs -nw">

If not set, C<vi> is used.

=back

=head1 SHELL QUOTING

Libvirt guest names can contain arbitrary characters, some of which
have meaning to the shell such as C<#> and space.  You may need to
quote or escape these characters on the command line.  See the shell
manual page L<sh(1)> for details.

=head1 SEE ALSO

L<guestfs(3)>,
L<guestfish(1)>,
L<virt-cat(1)>,
L<virt-copy-in(1)>,
L<virt-tar-in(1)>,
L<Sys::Guestfs(3)>,
L<Sys::Guestfs::Lib(3)>,
L<Sys::Virt(3)>,
L<http://libguestfs.org/>,
L<perl(1)>,
L<perlre(1)>.

=head1 AUTHOR

Richard W.M. Jones L<http://people.redhat.com/~rjones/>

=head1 COPYRIGHT

Copyright (C) 2009-2011 Red Hat Inc.

This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or
(at your option) any later version.

This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
GNU General Public License for more details.

You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software
Foundation, Inc., 675 Mass Ave, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA.