DESCRIPTION

Share variables across Rex tasks with the help of Storable, using a "vars.db.$PID" file in the local directory, where $PID is the PID of the parent process.

SYNOPSIS

BEGIN { # put share in a BEGIN block
use Rex::Shared::Var;
share qw($scalar @array %hash); # share the listed variables
}

METHODS

share

Share the passed list of variables across Rex tasks. Should be used in a "BEGIN" block.

 BEGIN {
   use Rex::Shared::Var;
   share qw($error_count);
 }
 task 'count', sub {
   $error_count += run 'wc -l /var/log/syslog';
 };
 after_task_finished 'count', sub {
   say "Total number of errors: $error_count";
 };