2lazy is a tool allowing you to create and use project specific command aliases.

1build is a similar tool with a different execution model. 1build allows you to run multiple commands in a single run, but offers no way of interacting with them. 2lazy allows you to specify additional arguments for your aliases and fully interact with them (stdout, stderr, stdin and exit code are redirected) but you can only run one command per invocation.

Basic usage

First of all add a 2lazy.yml file to your project. Here you can find minimal example.

commands:
  hello: echo Hello

$ 2lazy hello
Hello
INFO Finished                                      elapsedTime="637.598µs"
$ 2lazy hello world
Hello world
INFO Finished                                      elapsedTime="566.128µs"

Advanced usage

quiet: true

project_dir: /tmp
start_in_project_dir: true

commands:
  interactive: docker run --rm -it debian /bin/bash
  cut_spaces: tr -d ' '
  ls: ls -l
  pwd: pwd

Running interactive software

$ 2lazy interactive
root@fe74e2d6b84b:/# echo "That's great!"
That's great!

Input/output redirection

Remember to set quiet: true if you want to use standard output!

$ echo "2 + 2" | 2lazy cut_spaces | tee /dev/stderr | bc
2+2
4

(tee /dev/stderr makes the output go to both standard error so you can see the result and to standard output which is redirected to bc for an actual calculation.)

Exit code redirection

$ 2lazy ls unknown.png
ls: cannot access 'unknown.png': No such file or directory
$ echo $?
2

Overriding working directory

You can start 2lazy in any of the child directories of the project - it'll automatically find configuration in one of the parent files. By default commands will be spawned i the same directory as 2lazy was spawned, but you can override this behavior with start_in_project_dir and project_dir options.

$ 2lazy pwd
/tmp

Available configuration keys

Key name	Default value	Description
quiet	false	If true will suppress messages with level lower or equal to INFO (like the --quiet option in CLI)
start_in_project_dir	false	If true will start commands in project_dir, else in the same directory the 2lazy was spawned
project_dir	Directory where first 2lazy.yml file is found	Allows you to specify where to start commands
commands	Empty dictionary	Dictionary with actual list of aliases. Currently all parameters are passed 1:1, but it may change in the future

Help section

NAME:
   2lazy - when you're too lazy to type full command

USAGE:
   2lazy [global options] [alias name] [alias arguments] [...]

GLOBAL OPTIONS:
   --debug     whether to show debug messages (default: false)
   --quiet     whether to hide info messages (default: false)
   --help, -h  show help (default: false)

Possible future enhancements

• bash-like argument substitution (think $1 and similar)
• parsing all the 2lazy.yml files in the parent tree
• support for other configuration formats (like Jsonnet, JSON, etc.)
• support for saving environment variables in configuration file
• suppoprt for special arguments like ~

Contributions

Feel free to submit pull requests. Files are formated with gofmt with default settings.

License

MIT 2020 by pidpawel