manuel

A grunt-inspired task runner for bash.

Prerequisites

Manuel depends on bash version 4.

Installation

Simply clone this repository and put the manuel script on your path. For example, clone into ~/opt and then link the script into ~/bin :

$ cd ~/opt
$ git clone git://github.com/ShaneKilkelly/manuel
$ ln -s $HOME/opt/manuel/manuel $HOME/bin/manuel

Usage

• Create a manuelfile in your project. manuel provides a handy init task for this purpose

  $ manuel init
  >> Creating new manuelfile in /your/project/directory
  

• Fill the manuelfile with 'tasks' (aka bash functions):

  #! /usr/bin/env bash
  
  function build {
    echo ">> I am building in $1 mode"
  }
  
  function run_tests {
    build 'test'
    echo ">> Testing, all passed!"
  }
  

• Run your tasks like so:

  $ manuel run_tests
  >> I am building in test mode
  >> Testing, all passed!
  

Plugins

Manuel supports loading of third-party plugins (again, really just bash functions). See Plugins for more details.

Some really nice plugins are:

• manuel-contrib-watch
• manuel-contrib-concurrent

Autocomplete

To enable autocompletion for manuel tasks, simply source the autocompletion file corresponding to you shell. For instance, for bash, add to your ~/.bashrc:

source manuel.autocomplete.bash

Or for zsh:

source manuel.autocomplete.zsh

Note: Autocompletion requires manuel to be in your path.

Documentation

• Built-in tasks
• Plugins

License

Released under the MIT license