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

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Normally in Gulp tasks look like this:

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

Is it possible to pass a command line flag to gulp (that’s not a task) and have it run tasks conditionally based on that? For instance

$ gulp my-task -a 1

And then in my gulpfile.js:

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

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