Task runner. It provides useful help messages and supports interactive prompts.

cmdx is the task runner. Using cmdx you can manage tasks for your project such as test, build, format, lint, and release.

For example, This is the tasks for cmdx itself.

$ cmdx -l
init, i - setup git hooks
coverage, c - test a package (fzf is required)
test, t - test
fmt - format the go code
vet, v - go vet
lint, l - lint the go code
release, r - release the new version
durl - check dead links (durl is required)
ci-local - run the Drone pipeline at localhost (drone-cli is required)

$ cmdx help release
NAME:
   cmdx release - release the new version

USAGE:
   cmdx release <version>

DESCRIPTION:
   release the new version
ARGUMENTS:
   version

cmdx searches the configuration file from the current directory to the root directory recursively, and runs the task at the directory where the configuration file exists.

• Easy to install (one binary)
• Parse the flag and positional arguments
• Useful help messages
• Interactive prompt by AlecAivazis/survey
• Validate requirements
• Validate flag and positional arguments
• Timeout
• Bash and Zsh completion
• Nested tasks (Sub tasks)

Download the binary from the release page. you can install cmdx with Homebrew too.

$ brew install suzuki-shunsuke/cmdx/cmdx

Create the configuration file.

$ cmdx --init
$ cat .cmdx.yaml

Edit the configuration file and register the task hello.

$ vi .cmdx.yaml
$ cat .cmdx.yaml
---
tasks:
- name: hello
  description: hello command
  usage: hello command
  flags:
  - name: source
    short: s
    usage: source file path
    required: true
    input_envs:
    - NAME
  - name: switch
    type: bool
  args:
  - name: name
    usage: name
    default: bb
  environment:
    FOO: foo
  script: "echo hello {{.source}} $NAME {{if .switch}}on{{else}}off{{end}} {{.name}} $FOO" # use Go's text/template

Output the help.

$ cmdx help
NAME:
   cmdx - task runner

USAGE:
   cmdx [global options] command [command options] [arguments...]

VERSION:
   0.2.2

AUTHOR:
   Shunsuke Suzuki

COMMANDS:
   hello     hello command
   help, h   Shows a list of commands or help for one command

GLOBAL OPTIONS:
   --config value, -c value  configuration file path
   --name value, -n value    configuration file name. The configuration file is searched from the current directory to the root directory recursively
   --init, -i                create the configuration file
   --list, -l                list tasks
   --help, -h                show help
   --version, -v             print the version

List tasks.

$ cmdx -l
hello - hello command

Run the task hello.

$ cmdx hello -s README
+ echo hello README $NAME off bb $FOO
hello README README off bb foo

$ cmdx hello -s README --switch
+ echo hello README $NAME on bb $FOO
hello README README on bb foo

$ cmdx hello --target foo
target: foo

In order to understand cmdx, it is good to execute cmdx command actually. We prepare the sample configuration file for you to execute cmdx.

Please see examples.

task.script is the task command. This is parsed by Go's text/template package. sprig functions can be used. The value of the flag and positional argument can be referred by the argument name.

For example,

# refer the value of the argument "source"
script: "echo {{.source}}"

Multiple lines

script: |
  echo foo
  echo bar

If the positional argument is optional and the argument isn't passed and the default value isn't set, the value is an empty string "".

And some special variables are defined.

input_envs is a list of environment variables that are bound to the variable.

tasks:
- name: foo
  script: "echo {{.source}}"
  args:
  - name: source
    input_envs:
    - command_env

$ COMMAND_ENV=zzz cmdx foo
+ echo zzz
zzz

script_envs is a list of environment variables which the variable is bound to.

tasks:
- name: foo
  script: "echo $COMMAND_ENV"
  args:
  - name: source
    script_envs:
    - command_env

$ cmdx foo zzz
+ echo $COMMAND_ENV
zzz

cmdx supports the configuration about the timeout of the task.

1. send SIGINT after timeout.duration seconds (default 36,000 seconds)
2. if timeout.kill_after isn't 0, send SIGKILL after timeout.duration + timeout.kill_after seconds. By default timeout.kill_after is 0 so SIGKILL isn't sent

For example, the following task foo's timeout is 3 seconds.

tasks:
- name: foo
  script: sleep 100
  timeout:
    duration: 3

$ cmdx foo
+ sleep 100
the command is timeout: 3 sec

The task timeout configuration inherits the top level timeout configuration.

timeout:
  duration: 3
tasks:
- name: foo # the timeout.duration is 3
  script: sleep 100

task.require is the requirement to run the task.

For example, in the following example both of curl and wget is required.

tasks:
- name: foo
  script: curl http://example.com
  require:
    exec:
    - curl
    - wget

If curl isn't installed, the task is failed.

$ cmdx foo
curl is required

Note that the shell's alias is ignored. Internally, exec.LookupPath is used.

In the following example, either curl or wget is required.

tasks:
- name: foo
  script: curl http://example.com
  require:
    exec:
    - - curl
      - wget

$ cmdx foo
one of the following is required: curl, wget

require.environment is the required environment variables. Note that if the value of the environment variable is an emtpy string, the environment variable is treated as unset.

tasks:
- name: foo
  script: curl http://example.com
  require:
    environment:
    - GITHUB_TOKEN

$ cmdx foo
the environment variable 'GITHUB_TOKEN' is required

tasks:
- name: foo
  script: curl http://example.com
  require:
    environment:
    - - GITHUB_TOKEN
      - GITHUB_ACCESS_TOKEN

$ cmdx foo
one of the following environment variables is required: GITHUB_TOKEN, GITHUB_ACCESS_TOKEN

cmdx supports to validate args and flags.

For example,

# .cmdx.yaml
tasks:
- name: hello
  script: echo hello
  args:
  - name: age
    validate:
    - type: int

$ cmdx hello foo
age is invalid: must be int: foo

By default cmdx outputs the content of task's script when the task is run.

In case of the following example, + echo hello is outputted.

# .cmdx.yaml
tasks:
- name: hello
  script: echo hello

$ cmdx hello
+ echo hello
hello

You can suppress the output by --quiet (-q) option.

# BAD: cmdx hello -q
$ cmdx -q hello
hello

And you can change the default configuration of quiet at the global level or the task level.

# .cmdx.yaml
tasks:
- name: hello
  script: echo hello
  quiet: true  # task level

# .cmdx.yaml
quiet: true # global level
tasks:
- name: hello
  script: echo hello
  quiet: true

The priority is

1. command line flag
2. task level configuration
3. global level configuration

If the quiet is enabled by configuration but you want to output script, please set the flag -q=false.

# "=" is needed
$ cmdx -q=false hello
+ echo hello
hello

cmdx supports the interactive prompt by AlecAivazis/survey. cmdx supports the following prompt types.

• input
• multiline
• password
• confirm
• select
• multi_select
• editor

About prompt type, please see AlecAivazis/survey's document.

1. command line arguments
2. environment variable (input_envs)
3. prompt (prompt isn't launched if the value is set by command line argument or environment variable)
4. default value

This is an advanced feature.

By default task's script is run by the command sh -c. You can change the command by the shell option.

For example, you can run Python script.

- name: hello
  shell:
  - python
  - -c
  script: |
    print("hello")

And you can run the shell script in the container.

- name: hello
  shell:
  - docker
  - exec
  - -ti
  - foo
  - sh
  - -c
  script: |
    whoami
    read -p "name?" name
    echo "name: $name"

https://github.com/urfave/cli/blob/477292c8d462a3f51cd18bc77c0542193a62274d/docs/v2/manual.md#bash-completion

cmdx supports Bash (Zsh) Completion powered by urfave/cli.

We test the completion with Zsh, but we don't test the completion with other shell.

To enable the completion, you have to load a shell script. For detail, please see the document of urfave/cli.

Please set cmdx to PROG

cmdx supports sub tasks.

For example,

tasks:
- name: admin
  usage: administrator feature
  tasks:
  - name: cluster
    usage: manage clusters
    tasks:
    - name: create
      usage: create a cluster
      script: echo "create a cluster"

$ cmdx admin cluster create
+ echo "create a cluster"
create a cluster

The following attributes are inherited from the parent tasks.

• input_envs
• script_envs
• quiet
• environment
• timeout
• requires

For example,

tasks:
- name: admin
  usage: administrator feature
  require:
    exec:
    - yamllint
  tasks:
  - name: cluster
    usage: manage clusters
    tasks:
    - name: create
      usage: create a cluster
      script: echo "create a cluster"

$ cmdx admin cluster create
yamllint is required

We can't set both task.script and task.tasks.

For example,

tasks:
- name: hello
  script: echo hello
  tasks:
  - name: world
    script: echo "hello world"

$ cmdx hello
please fix the configuration file: the task `hello` is invalid. when sub tasks are set, 'script' can't b
e set

Please see the CONTRIBUTING.md.

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