NAME

       cap - tool to perform capistrano tasks

SYNOPSIS

       cap <command> [options]

DESCRIPTION

       cap  — cap is an utility to invoke capistrano tasks.  Capistrano is a utility and framework for executing
       commands in parallel on multiple remote machines, via SSH. It uses a simple DSL (borrowed  in  part  from
       Rake,  http://rake.rubyforge.org/) that allows you to define _tasks_, which may be applied to machines in
       certain roles. It also supports tunneling connections via some gateway machine to allow operations to  be
       performed behind VPN's and firewalls.

       Capistrano was originally designed to simplify and automate deployment of web applications to distributed
       environments,  and originally came bundled with a set of tasks designed for deploying Rails applications.
       The deployment tasks are now (as of Capistrano 2.0) opt-in and require clients to  explicitly  put  "load
       'deploy'" in their recipes.

       Capistrano  is   a  self-documenting program by giving you an extensive help listing for each command. If
       you think that this manual page is outdated, simply running

       cap -h

ASSUMPTIONS

       Capistrano is "opinionated software", which means it has very firm ideas about how  things  ought  to  be
       done, and tries to force those ideas on you. Some of the assumptions behind these opinions are:

         * You are using SSH to access the remote servers.
         *  You  either have the same password to all target machines, or you have public keys in place to allow
       passwordless access to them.

       Do not expect these assumptions to change.

OPTIONS

       Capistrano  is extensible configurable, and it has the following configuration options:

       -e           --explain TAKS
                 Displays help (if available) for the task.

       -F           --default-config
                 Always use default config, even with -f.

       -f           --file FILE
                 A recipe file to load. May be given more than once.

       -H           --long-help
                 Explain these options.

       -h           --help
                 Display this help message.

       -p           --password
                 Immediately prompt for the password.

       -q           --quiet
                 Make the output as quiet as possible.

       -S           --set-before NAME=VALUE
                 Set a variable before the recipes are loaded.

       -s           --set NAME=VALUE
                 Set a variable after the recipes are loaded.

       -T           --taks
                 List all tasks in the loaded recipe files.

       -V           --version
                 Display the Capistrano version, and exit.

       -v           --verbose
                 Be more verbose. May be given more than once.

       -X           --skip-system-config
                 Don't load the system config file (capistrano.conf)

       -x           --skip-user-config
                 Don't load the user config file (.caprc)

SEE ALSO

       capify (1).

AUTHOR

       This manual page was written by Leandro Nunes dos  Santos  leandronunes@colivre.coop.br  for  the  Debian
       system  (but  may  be  used  by  others).   Permission  is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this
       document under the terms of the GNU General Public License, Version 2 any later version published by  the
       Free Software Foundation.

       On Debian systems, the complete text of the GNU General Public License can be found in /usr/share/common-
       licenses/GPL.

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