Is it possible to pass a flag to Gulp to have it run tasks in different ways?

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Gulp doesn’t offer any kind of util for that, but you can use one of the many command args parsers. I like yargs. Should be:

var argv = require('yargs').argv;

gulp.task('my-task', function() {
    return gulp.src(argv.a == 1 ? options.SCSS_SOURCE : options.OTHER_SOURCE)
        .pipe(sass({style:'nested'}))
        .pipe(autoprefixer('last 10 version'))
        .pipe(concat('style.css'))
        .pipe(gulp.dest(options.SCSS_DEST));
});

You can also combine it with gulp-if to conditionally pipe the stream, very useful for dev vs. prod building:

var argv = require('yargs').argv,
    gulpif = require('gulp-if'),
    rename = require('gulp-rename'),
    uglify = require('gulp-uglify');

gulp.task('my-js-task', function() {
  gulp.src('src/**/*.js')
    .pipe(concat('out.js'))
    .pipe(gulpif(argv.production, uglify()))
    .pipe(gulpif(argv.production, rename({suffix: '.min'})))
    .pipe(gulp.dest('dist/'));
});

And call with gulp my-js-task or gulp my-js-task --production.

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