The made program is a command line tool that automates the execution of commands defined in Madefiles and Makefiles, searching for these files in various directories, concatenating their sections, and producing a shell script for execution. It extends the functionality of make by reading not only the Makefile/Madefile in the current directory but also Madefiles in different locations within the system.

Even if make is an excellent building tool, I only use it to remember long commands.

Guillermo Álvarez author of the made command

Download the binary for your system from github and place it within your path.

Contrary to make, made not only reads targets from the Makefile in the current directory.

It reads:

• Madefile
• madefiles/*.made
• .madefiles/*.made

And it also loads Madefiles from different parts of the system.

• Current directory
• Each directory up until it reaches your HOME or /
• ~/.config/madefiles
• ~/.local/share/madefiles
• /etc/madefiles
• /var/lib/madefiles

A madefile looks like this:

# This is a comment # And the header of the Madefile # Every thing will be appended to the generated script : ${BRANCH:?master} # Assign a default value to the variable BRANCH # Now we have the tasks # they have a name semicolon dependencies and an optional comment prepended with # deploy: check_clean # Deploy 	git push dokku $BRANCH staging: # Configuration for staging environment	BRANCH=staging check_clean: if ! $(git diff --exit-code > /dev/null) ; then echo "Can't operate while there are non commited changes." >&2 exit 2 fi notify: # Notify in the chat 	curl https://somenotificationservice.com/new_deploy run: # Run a command in the server	ssh dokku $*

Now let's run it:

$ made staging deploy notify ... and it deploys stagings and notifies 

$ made # To display all the tasks deploy Deploy staging Configuration for staging environment notify Notify in the chat $ made deploy # To run a single task ... $ made -s notify # Output the generated script : ${BRANCH:?master} # Assign a default value to the variable BRANCH curl https://somenotificationservice.com/new_deploy $ BRANCH=production made deploy # Pass variables to made ... $ made run -- help # Pass arguments to the script ... 

madecommand searches for Madefiles in: All directories from current up to HOME.

It looks for files called Madefile or with .made extension, in the directory or inside a .made directory.

Visit the releases page download and unpack the binary in /usr/local/bin

Just run made --update

Whenever I wanted make to do more complex scripting, I spent a lot of time because Makefiles are not shell scripts, so I needed to relearn how to do it the make way.

Why can't make concatenate the scripts in a file and run it?