How to set the working directory for a Fabric task?

Question

Assuming I define a trivial task to list files on a remote server:

from fabric.api import run, env

env.use_ssh_config = True

def list_files():
    run(\'ls         


        

Answer 1

Use the Context Manager cd:

from fabric.api import run, env
from fabric.context_managers import cd

env.use_ssh_config = True

def list_files():
    with cd('/tmp'):
        run('ls')

Answer 2

Answer for fabric 2.4.0 looks like this:

from fabric import Connection

conn = Connection(host=HOST_NAME, user=USER_NAME, connect_kwargs={'password': PASSWORD})

with conn.cd('/tmp/'):
    conn.run('ls -la')

This is not covered by the fabric documentation but by the invoke documentation.