Fabfiles With Command Line Arguments

fabric, python

Solution

I ended up using the per-task arguments. It seems like a better idea than doing unattached command line arguments.

Problem

Is there a clean way to have your fabfile take command line arguments? I'm writing an installation script for a tool that I want to be able to specify an optional target directory via the command line. I wrote some code to test what would happen if I passed in some command line arguments: ``` # fabfile.py import sys def install(): _get_options() def _get_options(): print repr(sys.argv[1:]) ``` A couple of runs: ``` $ fab install ['install'] Done. $ fab install --electric-boogaloo Usage: fab [options] <command>[:arg1,arg2=val2,host=foo,hosts='h1;h2',...] ... fab: error: no such option: --electric-boogaloo ```

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