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sate

This tool is no longer under active development. If you are interested in taking over or repurposing the name on crates.io, feel free to contact me: nbishop@nbishop.net

sate is a simple replacement for some of whatmake can do. sate focuses on task automation rather than building. By default sate looks for a file called .satefile (and searches upwards through parent directories).

This repository contains dueling Python and Rust implementations.

A very simple example

.satefile:

[lint]
pylint *.py

This defines a target called lint. Running sate lint calls pylint *.py.

Usage

To install sate, just run cargo install sate. You can also download the latest release build directly from Github.

To use a target, run sate <target-name>.

To list targets, run sate --list or sate -l.

Syntax

A target begins with a bracketed name on its own line, for example [lint]. Everything after a target name is a command. A command is just a subprocess executed in a shell (so you can use shell syntax such as pipes in the command). There can be any number of commands in a target. Commands are run in the order they are defined. Execution stops if any command exits with a non-zero value.

Each command can optionally begin with a directive, which is a bracketed list of calls. Example: [nofail()] mkdir test. This defines a mkdir command that never fails, i.e. a non-zero exit code is ignored.

Unlike Makefiles, a target is sate doesn't check for a file of that name, so there's no need for a .PHONY equivalent.

TODO

  • Variables
  • Other tags such as [nofail]
  • Line continuations (\)
  • Comments (#)

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