makesure VS Batsh

makesure, a similar tool (https://maximullaris.com/makesure-vs-just.html) I'm developing, doesn't require installation in the traditional sense: https://github.com/xonixx/makesure#installation.

Also, I was considering adding the same feature (generating the equivalent shell script) to my tool, but after doing some analysis decided not to pursue this idea for the following reasons: https://github.com/xonixx/makesure/issues/83#issuecomment-98....

Another simple tool similar to this is makesure[1]. It’s written in shell so the idea is you include makesure itself in your repo, which avoids needing to install another tool to run commands on your project.

It’s very simple so isn’t good for everything, but works well as a simple command runner.

[1] https://github.com/xonixx/makesure

- mawk (https://invisible-island.net/mawk/) - bundled in some Linux distros (?), known as the fastest byte-code compiled implementation.

All three have very good compatibility, but Gawk is super-set over POSIX standard. I have some evidence here, since I regularly test [1] against these implementations and even some others, like GoAWK.

[1] https://github.com/xonixx/makesure/actions/runs/1830978431

I've been using make to do this for ages, but its syntax really shows its age in a bad way. A while ago I switched to just (https://github.com/casey/just), which is a simple command runner with less unnecessary cruft (for my use case as a command runner) and a much saner syntax, and I've been pretty happy with it so far, I hardly ever need to look up anything.

There's also task (https://taskfile.dev/), which is YAML-based and might work well in an environment where everything else is YAML anyway, and makesure (https://github.com/xonixx/makesure), which is pretty similar to just, but didn't really click with me.

yes, there is also https://github.com/xonixx/makesure - It is a simple task/command runner inspired by make with declarative goals and dependencies.

Idempotence is achievable elegantly with makesure tool [1] using @reached_if directive [2]. Full disclosure - I’m the author of the tool.

[1] https://github.com/xonixx/makesure

[2] https://github.com/xonixx/makesure#reached_if

https://github.com/batsh-dev-team/Batsh

https://github.com/tdenniston/bish

(Just fyi. I've been collecting links to similar things because of Reasons).

I wish there was a nicer shell scripting language that simply transpiled to Bash and would generate all this boilerplate code for me. There is https://batsh.org/ which has a nice syntax but it doesn't even support pipes or redirection, making it pretty worthless for shell scripting. I haven't found any other such scripting languages.

There are some languages that compile into bash like Batch. Shell commands can also be called from Python code using this (never tried it): https://plumbum.readthedocs.io/en/latest/index.html

Maybe https://github.com/batsh-dev-team/Batsh

Not really what you're asking for, but a language that compiles to bash for portability reminded me of Batsh [0], a C-like language that compiles to bash for Linux/Mac and batch for Windows.

[0] https://github.com/batsh-dev-team/Batsh

There used to be something called Batsh as well but no longer seems to be actively developed

There are a couple projects that provide a language that compiles to Bash, which gets around Oil's portability problem somewhat. Bish and Batsh come to mind.