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Task runner that helps you easily manage and invoke small scripts and wrappers

23 mentions on Hacker News by 6 people: 2 stories, 21 comments · first 2019-12-17 · latest 2026-08-03

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  1. …running tasks: Run: Task runner that helps you easily manage and invoke small scripts and wrappers. https://github.com/TekWizely/run Do you find yourself using tools like make to manage non-build-related scripts? Build tools are great, but…
    comment by TekWizely · 2026-08-03 · in Use Task Runners for Common Coding Tasks
  2. …Run: Task runner that helps you easily manage and invoke small scripts and wrappers (weitten in Go) https://github.com/TekWizely/run
    comment by davidpfarrell · 2025-10-05 · in Show HN: Run – a CLI universal code runner I built while learning Rust
  3. I highly recommend Run [0]. [0]: https://github.com/TekWizely/run
    comment by nikolay · 2024-04-25 · in Ask HN: Any tool for managing large and variable command lines?
  4. I've been using Run [0] for this purposes. [0]: https://github.com/TekWizely/run
    comment by nikolay · 2023-08-30 · in Amazon acquires Fig
  5. …into discussing the merits of Make as a task runner, I would like to offer my tool for review: * https://github.com/TekWizely/run I built it to feel like make, but be better at managing tasks and wrappers. If you are evaluating task…
    comment by davidpfarrell · 2023-02-23 · in Show HN: Xc – A Markdown Defined Task Runner
  6. …that allows you to define tasks in the easy make-style, but is purpose-build to be a task runner: * https://github.com/TekWizely/run
    comment by davidpfarrell · 2023-02-23 · in Show HN: Xc – A Markdown Defined Task Runner
  7. …to use make as a task runner, may I recommend you take a look at my entry into the ecosystem: * https://github.com/TekWizely/run Feels like make (by design) but purpose-built for managing small tasks.
    comment by davidpfarrell · 2023-02-23 · in Show HN: Xc – A Markdown Defined Task Runner
  8. I invite you take a look at Run, a similar tool that I maintain: * https://github.com/TekWizely/run Support for including other Runfiles was recently introduced, with support for globbing and the ability to indicate if an error should be…
    comment by davidpfarrell · 2023-01-10 · in Just: A Command Runner
  9. …category: RUN : A Task runner that helps you easily manage and invoke small scripts and wrappers * https://github.com/TekWizely/run Do you find yourself using tools like make to manage non-build-related scripts? Build tools are great, but…
    comment by davidpfarrell · 2023-01-10 · in Just: A Command Runner
  10. I use github.com/TekWizely/run for this use case. It's a robust way to build one-off command-line "APIs" for managing projects and documenting processes. I deploy it in production environments along with application-specific Runfiles for…
    comment by politician · 2023-01-09 · in Just: A Command Runner
  11. …became: Run: Task runner that helps you easily manage and invoke small scripts and wrappers https://github.com/TekWizely/run Defining commands feels like make, but comes with a bunch of extras targeted at the needs of a task-runner. I hope…
    comment by davidpfarrell · 2022-10-20 · in DevOps is broken
  12. …to better-manage small scripts and wrappers more locally, please take a look at my project, Run: https://github.com/TekWizely/run
    comment by davidpfarrell · 2022-09-16 · in sd – a cozy nest for your scripts
  13. …come around to make's sub-optimal use as general runner, I'd like to point out my project, Run: https://github.com/TekWizely/run It feels like a makefile but is optimized managing and invoking small tasks and wrappers, and auto-generates…
    comment by davidpfarrell · 2022-08-12 · in The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Makefiles
  14. For those looking for a powerful task runners that feel like a makefile, please take a look at Run: https://github.com/TekWizely/run It's better a managing and invoking tasks and generates help text from comments.
    comment by davidpfarrell · 2022-08-12 · in The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Makefiles
  15. …do. Bingo requires my Run[1] package, which itself is written in go and can be installed via `go install github.com/TekWizely/run` -- Additionally, once you have Bingo installed, you can use IT to re-install Run and then manage your Run…
    comment by TekWizely · 2021-12-27 · in Bingo – The missing package manager for Go binaries (Homebrew for “go install”)
  16. re ls: ` https://github.com/TekWizely/run ` displays targets in the usage command (ie `run -h`). It might be worth looking at their output for inspiration. (Runfiles are doing something similar to Earthfiles).
    comment by politician · 2021-12-02 · in Show HN: Earthly v0.6
  17. …falls into the "Task Runner" category. As such, I would like to chime in with my entry: Run : https://github.com/TekWizely/run It has its own DSL for describing tasks, along with help strings and argument descriptors, and can manages…
    comment by davidpfarrell · 2021-08-26 · in Bashly – Create beautiful bash scripts from simple YAML configuration
  18. …in mind, I toss my tool into the ring: Run: Easily manage and invoke small scripts and wrappers - https://github.com/TekWizely/run
    comment by TekWizely · 2021-06-04 · in A stupid simple make wrapper that makes my life easier
  19. …runs commands Give my Run tool a try: Run: Easily manage and invoke small scripts and wrappers https://github.com/TekWizely/run
    comment by TekWizely · 2021-06-04 · in A stupid simple make wrapper that makes my life easier
  20. > why not just do a bash script with a switch in it? Here is another alternative: https://github.com/TekWizely/run
    comment by ataylor32 · 2021-06-03 · in A stupid simple make wrapper that makes my life easier
  21. Here it is: https://github.com/TekWizely/run/pull/2
    comment by chabad360 · 2019-12-18 · in Show HN: Run – Easily manage and invoke small scripts and wrappers