Summary
The user is asking how to pass a single argument to Earthly at runtime, similar to Podman's -e ARCH=x86_64, without using a .args file for each execution. They mention the syntax earthly +my-target --ARCH=x86_64 as a potential solution but find it inadequately highlighted in the documentation. The user suggests that this example should be made more prominent in the documentation for the ARG command and included in the help section for Earthly, particularly in the USAGE: section of --help. They also express willingness to contribute a pull request to improve the documentation.
kallisti05
can do. Thanks!
brandon
If you have time to contribute, a PR would really help us out :pray:
brandon
Yeah perhaps in the USAGE: section of --help
kallisti05
--ARGNAME=ARGVALUE - Arbitrary setting of individual ARGs or something
brandon
Or in the docs for the <https://docs.earthly.dev/docs/earthly-command|earthly command>
kallisti05
maybe in the help for earthly?
brandon
There's an example in <https://docs.earthly.dev/docs/guides/build-args|the guide> but perhaps it could be more obviously called in the docs for the ARG command :thinking_face:
kallisti05
Nice! I didn't see this called out in the docs. Thanks!
brandon
You should be able to with this kind of syntax:
earthly +my-target --ARCH=x86_64
kallisti05
Hey, how do you provide single ARG's to earthly at runtime? podman has
-e ARCH=x86_64
I really don't want to have to create a .args file on every run and update it for a single var.