whatthejeff / fab-cli
Brighten up your shell!
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Requires
- php: >=5.3.3
- whatthejeff/fab: ~1.0
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Last update: 2025-10-25 21:43:38 UTC
README
Brighten up your shell!
Commands
fab
fabify
Requirements
fab-cli requires:
- PHP 5.3.3 or later.
- A terminal emulator with support for ANSI escape sequences.
Installation
Warning: The install instructions below suggest renaming the fab.phar
binary to fab. If your system has fabric
installed, you should leave the .phar extension on the binary so that you
don't have any unexpected surprises during your next deploy.
Global
With cURL:
$ sudo curl -Lo /usr/local/bin/fab https://github.com/whatthejeff/fab-cli/releases/download/v1.0.2/fab.phar
$ sudo curl -Lo /usr/local/bin/fabify https://github.com/whatthejeff/fab-cli/releases/download/v1.0.2/fabify.phar
$ sudo chmod a+x /usr/local/bin/fab /usr/local/bin/fabify
With Wget:
$ sudo wget -O /usr/local/bin/fab https://github.com/whatthejeff/fab-cli/releases/download/v1.0.2/fab.phar
$ sudo wget -O /usr/local/bin/fabify https://github.com/whatthejeff/fab-cli/releases/download/v1.0.2/fabify.phar
$ sudo chmod a+x /usr/local/bin/fab /usr/local/bin/fabify
With composer:
$ composer global require whatthejeff/fab-cli @stable
$ export PATH="$PATH:$HOME/.composer/vendor/bin"
Local
With cURL:
$ curl -Lo fab https://github.com/whatthejeff/fab-cli/releases/download/v1.0.2/fab.phar
$ curl -Lo fabify https://github.com/whatthejeff/fab-cli/releases/download/v1.0.2/fabify.phar
$ chmod +x fab fabify
$ export PATH="$PATH:$(pwd)"
With Wget:
$ wget -O fab https://github.com/whatthejeff/fab-cli/releases/download/v1.0.2/fab.phar
$ wget -O fabify https://github.com/whatthejeff/fab-cli/releases/download/v1.0.2/fabify.phar
$ chmod +x fab fabify
$ export PATH="$PATH:$(pwd)"
With composer:
$ composer require whatthejeff/fab-cli @stable
$ export PATH="$PATH:$(pwd)/vendor/bin"
Usage
$ fab command [args...]
$ command [args...] | fabify
Acknowledgements
fab-cli was inspired by:
- fabgit by @erikaheidi
- Fab Symfony Console by @igorw
License
fab-cli is licensed under the MIT license.



