[Fab-user] Setting $PATH with Fabric 1.6.0

[Nathan Kleekamp]

I'm trying to run a command installed in my home directory on a remote server. It's in my $PATH on the remote server (via .bash_profile), but Fabric isn't seeing it. I've tried adding it to my $PATH using Fabric's path context manager like so:

def test_path():

    with path('/path/to/sources/drush'):

        run('echo $PATH')

        run('drush')

However, I'm getting:

Fatal error: run() received nonzero return code 127 while executing!

Fabric is executing: 

Executed: /bin/bash -l -c "export PATH=\"\$PATH:\"/home/kleekampnf/sources/drush\" \" && drush"

I think this is happening because the last dir in the path is being interpreted by bash as "/path/to/source/drush " (trailing space) - an invalid directory. I'm just wondering if this is a bug or a feature and I'm doing it wrong. 

See my related Stackoverflow post: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/15533841/setting-path-variable-with-fabric-1-6-0

Thanks,
Nathan