Tacoscript

RPort provides its own scripting language to make complex tasks easy.

Starting with RPort version 0.5.0 Tacoscript will installed by default with the RPort client.

At a glance

Tacoscript is a declarative scripting language for the easy automation of tasks. It uses human-readable YAML as input files. The interpreter consists of a single static binary available for almost any operating system. Read more.

Install Tacoscript

Only for Rport versions before 0.5.0 tacoscript is not installed by default. You must install it manually. But you can use the RPort script execution to perform the installation from the RPort web interface.

Windows (PowerShell)

$dest = "C:\Program Files\tacoscript"
if(Test-Path -Path $dest) {
    Write-Host "Tacoscript already installed to $($dest)"
    exit 0
}
$Temp = [System.Environment]::GetEnvironmentVariable('TEMP','Machine')
Set-Location $Temp
$url = "https://download.rport.io/tacoscript/stable/?arch=Windows_x86_64"
$file = "tacoscript.zip"
[Net.ServicePointManager]::SecurityProtocol = [Net.SecurityProtocolType]::Tls12
Invoke-WebRequest -Uri $url -OutFile $file -UseBasicParsing
Write-Host "Tacoscript dowloaded to $($Temp)\$($file)"
New-Item -ItemType Directory -Force -Path "$($dest)\bin"|Out-Null
Expand-Archive -Path $file -DestinationPath $dest -force
mv "$($dest)\tacoscript.exe" "$($dest)\bin"
Write-Host "Tacoscript installed to $($dest)"
$ENV:PATH="$ENV:PATH;$($dest)\bin"

[Environment]::SetEnvironmentVariable(
        "Path",
        [Environment]::GetEnvironmentVariable("Path", [EnvironmentVariableTarget]::Machine) + ";$($dest)\bin",
        [EnvironmentVariableTarget]::Machine
)
& tacoscript --version
rm $file -force

Linux (Bash)

#!/bin/sh
#
# Install Tacoscript on Linux
#
set -e
if [ -e /usr/local/bin/tacoscript ];then
   echo "Tacoscript already installed"
   exit 0
fi
cd /tmp
test -e tacoscript.tar.gz&&rm -f tacoscript.tar.gz
curl -LJs "https://download.rport.io/tacoscript/unstable/?arch=Linux_$(uname -m)" -o tacoscript.tar.gz
tar xvzf tacoscript.tar.gz -C /usr/local/bin/ tacoscript
rm -f tacoscript.tar.gz
tacoscript --version