X

Early alpha stage. Until now it is playground of ideas and everything can change.

x is a Bash task runner written in Go. It has the goal to make your utility scripts as easy as possible to execute. It is heavily inspired by Makefile and b5

Installation

X is build in Go and has therefor a single dependency free binary. You can find the right one for your platform attached to the releases.

Homebrew

x is available via Homebrew by adding a custom tap:

brew tap bambamboole/x
brew install x

Features

• Taskfile
• config
• It recursively iterates up, so you can use it in a sub folder
• It is fast

Taskfile

A Taskfile is a file which contains task definition in bash syntax. Here a simple example:

#!/bin/bash

task:hello (){
  echo "Hello $@!"
}

This is a very simple example, but it demonstrates a big feature. It os possible to pass through arguments. A feature which is missing in a Makefile.

To execute this task now, you have to execute x hello, or better with an additional argument x hello world.