How do I run a local command with fabric 2?

Question

I want to use Fabric and run a command on local, without having to establish any additional connections.

How do I do this in fabric 2? ... documentation seems to miss to give any example.

Answer 1

The design decision to drop the local command in Fabric 2 makes this more difficult, but I was able to simulate it by using Context from Invoke instead of Connection:

from fabric import Connection from invoke.context import Context  @task def hostname(c):     c.run('hostname')  @task def test(c):     conn = Connection('user@host')     hostname(conn)     local_ctx = Context(c.config)  # can be passed into @task;                                    # Connection is a subclass of Context     hostname(local_ctx)