grunt-command-run

Grunt plugin for easily run command line tools for your files.

Have an external tool and want to process your source file with it? Use this plugin!

Getting Started

This plugin requires Grunt ~0.4.5

If you haven't used Grunt before, be sure to check out the Getting Started guide, as it explains how to create a Gruntfile as well as install and use Grunt plugins. Once you're familiar with that process, you may install this plugin with this command:

npm install grunt-command-run --save-dev

Once the plugin has been installed, it may be enabled inside your Gruntfile with this line of JavaScript:

grunt.loadNpmTasks('grunt-command-run');

The "command_run" task

Overview

In your project's Gruntfile, add a section named command_run to the data object passed into grunt.initConfig().

Usage Example

XSLT templates compilation:

grunt.initConfig({
    // The task
    command_run: {
        // Your target
        compile_xslt: {
            options: {
                // Callback function that returns command for processing one of your files
                getCommand: function(filepath, dest) {
                    // Do some stuff, e.g. take just filename from relative filepath
                    var fileName = filepath.split("/").pop();
                    // Return command line for processing the file
                    return './tools/msxsl.exe ' + file + ' schema.xsl -o ' + dest + fileName;
                },
                // Output only errors
                quiet: true
            },
            // Standart files declaration
            files: [{
                expand: false,
                src: ['templates/*.*'],
                dest: 'build/'
            }],
        },
    },
});

Options

options.getCommand

Type: function

Callback function that returns command line which would be executed.

Parameters:

• filepath: Path to the file that processing now
• dest: Destination for the file (Depends on "expand" parameter in your files declaration, see below)

files

Files must be described as usual in Grunt. You can read about it here.

Contributing

In lieu of a formal styleguide, take care to maintain the existing coding style. Add unit tests for any new or changed functionality. Lint and test your code using Grunt.

If you see any textual errors, please feel free to correct.

Release History

• 0.1.1 Quiet mode
• 0.1.0 First version