List files with fabric

fabfile.py

from fabric.api import env, run, cd

env.hosts = ["localhost"]
def list_dir(dir=None):
    """docstring for list_dir"""
    dir = dir or env.cwd
    string = run("for i in %s*; do echo $i; done" % dir)
    files = string.replace("\r","").split("\n")
    return files

Makes it a little less verbose:

def list_dir(dir_=None):
    """returns a list of files in a directory (dir_) as absolute paths"""
    with hide('output'):
        if dir_ is not None and not dir_.endswith("/"):
            dir_ += "/"
        dir_ = dir_ or env.cwd
        string_ = run("for i in %s*; do echo $i; done" % dir_)
        files = string_.replace("\r","").split("\n")
    return files