Default Arguments

Many times, you want to override the default arguments of all commands launched through sh. For example, suppose you want the output of all commands to be aggregated into a io.StringIO buffer. The naive way would be this:

import sh
from io import StringIO

buf = StringIO()

sh.ls("/", _out=buf)
sh.whoami(_out=buf)
sh.ps("auxwf", _out=buf)

Clearly, this gets tedious quickly. Fortunately, we can create execution contexts that allow us to set default arguments on all commands spawned from that context:

import sh
from io import StringIO

buf = StringIO()
sh2 = sh.bake(_out=buf)

sh2.ls("/")
sh2.whoami()
sh2.ps("auxwf")

Now, anything launched from sh2 will send its output to the StringIO instance buf.