In many of my Perl projects, both personal ones, CPAN modules and work projects, I write code which tests to see whether a module has DWIMmed with respect to file creation: the file names, their paths and their content.

When the files are on my own box or on a server to which I have full privileges, there's no problem doing this.

But now I need to test whether code I write on one server properly creates directories and files on other servers which I can normally access only via SSHing to them. Moreover, once having SSHed to those servers, I often have to sudo to a special user to, for example, delete test files once my code has created them.

Right now I'm doing a lot of this manually, but it would be far more efficient and precise if I could automate the process within a test script.

I'm sure TMTOWTDI applies here. What are the ways other Monks have approached this problem? TIA.

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