From a9f52c4aff830ea8e3edc732ea139c8b3ad827e6 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Sverre Johansen <address@hidden>
Date: Thu, 29 Jan 2009 23:09:08 +0530
Subject: [PATCH] Added support for returning output in local() as in sudo() and run()

---
 fabric.py |    6 ++++--
 1 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/fabric.py b/fabric.py
index 34322bc..c491921 100644
--- a/fabric.py
+++ b/fabric.py
@@ -550,9 +550,11 @@ def local(cmd, **kwargs):
     # we don't need _escape_bash_specialchars for local execution
     final_cmd = _lazy_format(cmd)
     print("[localhost] run: " + final_cmd)
-    retcode = subprocess.call(final_cmd, shell=True)
-    if retcode != 0:
+    proc = subprocess.Popen(final_cmd, shell=True, stdout=subprocess.PIPE)
+    stdout = proc.communicate()[0]
+    if proc.returncode != 0:
         _fail(kwargs, "Local command failed:\n" + _indent(final_cmd))
+    return stdout
 
 @operation
 def local_per_host(cmd, **kwargs):
-- 
1.6.1