Question

I am running a command on the remote machine:

remote_output = run('mysqldump --no-data --user=username --password={0} database'.format(password))

I would like to capture the output, but not have it all printed to the screen. What’s the easiest way to do this?

Answer 1

It sounds like Managing output section is what you’re looking for.

To hide the output from the console, try something like this:

from __future__ import with_statement
from fabric.api import hide, run, get

with hide('output'):
    run('mysqldump --no-data test | tee test.create_table')
    get('~/test.create_table', '~/test.create_table')

Belows is the sample results:

No hosts found. Please specify (single) host string for connection: 192.168.6.142
[192.168.6.142] run: mysqldump --no-data test | tee test.create_table
[192.168.6.142] download: /home/quanta/test.create_table <- /home/quanta/test.create_table