What is the pants way to utilize the output/results_dir values of a given target by another external command?AKA I want to invoke pants from within a shell script and then use the results of the successful pants command.

typically commands like

./pants binary

or

./pants bundle

will drop the result into a dir named

dist/

at the root of your repo. you can also use

./pants run

to invoke your binary as a command directly in many cases.

Let’s say all I’m doing is generating some configuration files, would it make sense to install a task into the binary goal just to get a consistent output directory within dist? Is there a pattern to use the dist/ directory output from another goal besides binary?

the "right" way (currently) to have the binary tasks consume some input and publish it for you would be to produce a product that one of the binary tasks consumes to produce that directory