GitHub30 / shell2http

Executing shell commands via HTTP server

shell2http

HTTP-server to execute shell commands. Designed for development, prototyping or remote control. Settings through two command line arguments, path and shell command. By default bind to :8080. with shell2udp it runs with minimal latency.

Usage

shell2http [-h] [-form] [-no-index] [-add-exit] [-output] [-sse] [-p PORT] ["shell command" for /] /path "shell command" /path2 "shell command2" ...

positional arguments:
  command

optional arguments:
  -h, --help            show this help message and exit
  -form                 parse query into environment vars
  -no-index             do not generate index page
  -add-exit             add /exit command
  -output               send back output
  -sse                  use Server Sent Events
  -p PORT, --port PORT

Install

pip install shell2http

Examples

Windows

stop http server with Ctrl + Pause/Break

shell2http "shutdown -s -t 0"

shell2http "shutdown -s -t 0" /beep "powershell -c echo `a"

shell2http --port 3306 /beep "powershell -command [Console]::Beep(440,2000)"

http://localhost:8080/form?from=10&to=100

shell2http -output -form /form 'echo %v_from%, %v_to%'

Linux

shell2http 'notify-send Hello root'

shell2http -p3000 'notify-send Hello root' /path 'canberra-gtk-play -i desktop-login'

shell2http -p3000 /path 'canberra-gtk-play -i desktop-login'

shell2http -output /info 'uname -a'

shell2http -output -sse /ping 'ping -c4 8.8.8.8'

shell2http -add-exit pwd

http://localhost:8080/form?from=10&to=100

shell2http -output -form /form 'echo $v_from, $v_to'

html sufix to endpoint will change header to "text/html":

# Ability to have server events and server simple html pages as clients
shell2http -output -sse /serve_files_as.html "cat LICENSE|sed 's/.*/<pre>&<\/pre>/'"

Acknowledgements

https://github.com/msoap/shell2http

https://github.com/eshaan7/Flask-Shell2HTTP