Interactive CLI choosing mode (interactive task listing with filtering)

[iangregsondev]

Hi,

It would be really nice to be able to run taskfile in an interactive CLI choice mode.

i.e. A setting for "default" task to show the list of tasks, and using the cursor keys you get to choose and drill down until you find the one you are looking for. so i.e

Show all tasks and drill down into subtasks etc

task

OR

if I have a list of subtasks under the "exporter" taskfile then running

task exporter

would display all tasks for "exporter:" (a.k.a filtering) and allow choosing with the cursor keys or drilling down more i.e.

task: Available tasks for this project:
* exporter:build:linux:         Build exporter for Linux
* exporter:build:linux:prod:    Build exporter for Linux (production)
* exporter:build:mac:           Build exporter for Mac
* exporter:build:mac:prod:      Build exporter for Mac (production)
* exporter:release:             Release exporter
* exporter:release:snapshot:    Release exporter

exporter is actually a subtask i.e.

includes:
  exporter:
    taskfile: ./cmd/exporter/Taskfile.yml

Here is an example in the javascript ecosystem. https://www.npmjs.com/package/ntl , there are many others.

I thought it would be a nice addition.

Great product, by the way, I have dropped makefiles and use this now - everywhere :-)

[kerma]

Hello @iangregsondev! You could achieve something like this using fzf:

task -l | grep -v 'task: Available' | fzf --prompt="Available tasks: " | awk '{sub(/:/, "", $2); print $2}' | xargs task

It needs a bit more work to get it properly working inside taskfile itself however.

[iangregsondev]

Wow, i like it... There is one small issue though.

It removes the colon (:) from the wrong place

i.e.

• exporter:run: Run exporter

task: Task "exporterrun:" not found

But I like it, that's pretty cool.

[kerma]

corrected the regexp in awk: awk '{sub(/:$/, "", $2); print $2}'