This is the command cow-shell that can be run in the OnWorks free hosting provider using one of our multiple free online workstations such as Ubuntu Online, Fedora Online, Windows online emulator or MAC OS online emulator
PROGRAM:
NAME
cow-shell - Start a copy-on-write session and invoke a shell.
SYNOPSIS
cow-shell [commandline]
DESCRIPTION
cow-shell Executes specified command with cowdancer or a shell if no command-line option
is given.
Inside the cowdancer session, files under the current directory are protected in a way so
that a write operation to an i-node which existed at the point of running cow-shell is not
modified.
Useful for managing hard-linked source-trees and scratch-filesystems.
EXAMPLES
cp -al cowdancer/ cowdancer.new && cd cowdancer.new && cow-shell
Create a hardlinked tree, and cd into the newly created tree. After invoking cow-
shell inside that tree, a write operation against a file that is hardlinked with
the original tree will be copied to a new file before write.
cp -al cowdancer/ cowdancer.new && cd cowdancer.new && cow-shell debuild
Tries to run dpkg-buildpackage on the new tree, to avoid damage to the original
tree.
Configure debuild to ignore .ilist files, through -i or -I option.
Use cow-shell online using onworks.net services
