peon
is a bash script runner. It is inspired by the likes of rake and thor, but is written in pure bash. The point of peon
is to be fast and simple. peon
's feature set is intentionally very limited.
You can install via Homebrew:
brew tap neezer/formulae
brew install peon
Just download the latest release and extract to a folder in your run path.
You will need to have gawk
installed. And also tinge
.
peon
works out of the directory you call it from. In the current working directory, peon
expects there to be a .peon
configuration file.
At minimum, you must tell peon
where to find your bash scripts, via the TASKS_IN
variable:
TASKS_IN=path/to/your/scripts
After that, you should be able to run
$ peon --comands
... and see a list of available commands.
In order for peon
to find, parse, and call scripts, you'll need to add some metatdata to your script files. This can be located anywhere inside the script itself, though it's nice to stick 'em a the top close to the shebang.
# peon:label => cowsay
# peon:desc => Prints a cow to stdout with a speech bubble containing your text
The value for peon:label
will be how you invoke this script with peon
, eg.
$ peon cowsay
The value for peon:desc
will show up next to your command in the output from the commands flag, eg.
$ peon --commands
Available commands are:
cowsay Prints a cow to stdout with a speech bubble containing your text
NOTE: Any script that does not contain this metadata will be invisible to peon
!
You can further configure peon
by adding some additional variables to your local .peon
file:
# will automatically source a local .env file,
# if one exists, before each command
AUTOLOAD_ENV_FILE=true
Check out peon
's issues!