Command line options

fabricate is intended to be used in a build script, for example, build.py. But you can also run fabricate.py directly as a script with a command to run given on the command line. See examples of both methods on the project home page.

With either method, you can use certain command line options to override the default setup, or the setup() given in your build script. These are -t, -d, -c and -q, as follows:

Usage: fabricate.py [options] command line to run

 Options:
  --version             show program's version number and exit
  -h, --help            show this help message and exit
  -t, --time            use file modification times instead of MD5 sums
  -d DIR, --dir=DIR     add DIR to list of relevant directories
  -c, --clean           autoclean build outputs before running
  -q, --quiet           don't echo commands, only print errors
  -D, --debug           show debug info (why commands are rebuilt)
  -k, --keep            keep temporary strace output files
  -j JOBS, --jobs=JOBS  maximum number of parallel jobs