Inspec Shell

Inspec shell helps to run the command without writing the complete script

This is a good place to starts with the DSL

Type the below command in the terminal to get into the shell

$ inspec shell

This command will get us into the shell

Type the below command to check out what are the different options available in the Inspec shell

$ help

Now lets try to explore the different resources that Inspec gonna offer us

$ help resources

Now try to explore the os type resource to find out the OS family Execute the below command

$ os[:family]

You can execute the normal shell command using the command resource

$ command('shell-command').stdout

Task 1

Find the Operating system name using the Inspec shell without using the command resource

There are other tools also present along with Inspec CLI

$ inspec detect - used to detect the platform configuration