On Tue, Jan 24, 2012 at 20:17, Jonathan Reed <[email protected]> wrote:
> im trying to use wall in my fab file.
> * run('wall')*
> * run('please logout before 3pm today')*
> * run('') # Send EOF - Ctrl-V + Crtl-D*
>
> Is it that each run command is spawning a new session and the message is
> unaware of the previous command?
>
Correct. Fabric does not open a normal shell session, but sends isolated
commands to be executed by a shell program on the remote hosts.
The `shell` env variable defines part of how commands are executed by the
remote hosts: http://docs.fabfile.org/en/1.3.3/usage/env.html#shell
> If so
> * run('wall; a test; ^D')*
> doesnt seem to work either.
>
Right, we are not directly interacting with a bash prompt here.
>
> I could create a wall file, transfer it then run it but if the above
> worked it would be much simpler.
>
You can also pipe from `echo`:
run("echo 'a test' | wall")
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Christian Vest Hansen.
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