Rush 🏃

♆ Rush: A Minimalistic Bash Utility

Run all your task automation Bash commands from a single rushfile.yml file.

Features

• Supports all bash commands
• Option to ignore or run specific tasks
• By default, runs commands in interactive mode
• Option to catch or ignore command errors
• Option to show or supress command outputs
• Command chaining is supported (See the example rushfile.yml where task_2 is chained to task_1)

Installation

$ pip3 install rush-cli

Workflow

Rushfile

Here is an example rushfile.yml. It needs to reside in the root directory:

# rushfile.yml

task_1: |
    echo "task1 is running"

task_2: |
    # Task chaining [task_1 is a dependency of task_2]
    task_1
    echo "task2 is running"

task_3: |
    ls -a
    sudo apt-get install cowsay | head -n 0
    cowsay "Around the world in 80 days!"

//task_4: |
    # Ignoring a task [task_4 will be ignored while execution]
    ls | grep "ce"
    ls > he.txt1

task_5: |
    # Running a bash script from rush
    ./script.sh

Available Options

To see all the available options, run:

$ rush

or,

$ rush --help

This should show:

Usage: rush [OPTIONS] [FILTER_NAMES]...

  ♆ Rush: A Minimalistic Bash Utility

Options:
  -a, --all          Run all tasks
  --hide-outputs     Option to hide interactive output
  --ignore-errors    Option to ignore errors
  -p, --path         Show the absolute path of rushfile.yml
  --no-deps          Do not run dependent tasks
  --view-tasks       View task commands
  -ls, --list-tasks  List task commands with dependencies
  --no-warns         Do not show warnings
  -v, --version      Show rush version
  -h, --help         Show this message and exit.

Running Tasks

• Run all the tasks

  $ rush --all
  

• Run specific tasks

  $ rush task_1 task_4
  

• Ignore specific tasks

  See the example rushfile.yml where the '//' before a task name means that the task will be ignored during execution

  # rushfile.yml
  
  //task_4: |
      echo "This task will be ignored during execution."
  

  This ignores the task named //task_4.

• Run tasks non interactively (supress the outputs)

  $ rush --hide-outputs
  

• Run tasks ignoring errors

  $ rush --ignore-errors
  

• Do not run the dependent tasks

  $ rush task_2 --no-deps
  

Viewing Tasks

• View absolute path of rushfile.yml

  $ rush --path
  

  output,

  /home/rednafi/code/rush/rushfile.yml
  

• View task commands

  $ rush task_5 task_6 task_7 --view-tasks
  

  

• View task list with dependencies

  $ rush -ls
  

Quirks

• Rush runs all the commands using /usr/bin/bash. So shell specific syntax with other shebangs might throw error.

• If you are running Bash script from rush, use shebang (#!/usr/bin/env bash)

Issues

• Rush works better with python 3.7 and up
• If your have installed Rush globally and it throws a runtime error, you can try to solve it via adding the following variables to your ~./bashrc:

export LC_ALL=C.UTF-8
export LANG=C.UTF-8

You can find more information about the issue and why it's a non-trivial problem here.