https://noraincheck.github.io/tags/shell/Recent content in Shell on NoRaincheckHugoen-USNoRaincheckTue, 01 Apr 2025 00:00:00 +0000https://noraincheck.github.io/posts/maintaining-scripts-using-just-and-gum/Tue, 01 Apr 2025 00:00:00 +0000https://noraincheck.github.io/posts/maintaining-scripts-using-just-and-gum/<h2 id="maintaining-scripts-using-just-and-gum">Maintaining Scripts using Just and Gum</h2> <p><em>April 2025</em></p> <p>I&rsquo;ve found maintaining shell scripts and aliases to be a bit of a mess. I know people have their own systems with dotfiles, but it never &lsquo;stuck&rsquo; with me. I&rsquo;m trialing a new approach using <a href="https://github.com/charmbracelet/gum/">gum</a> and <a href="https://github.com/casey/just">just</a>, both which can be installed via <code>brew</code>. This makes it so there less memorisation of what different programs do, and their parameters, since you can control and name variables to a flow that you like. Combined with <code>just</code>&rsquo;s ability to target <code>justfile</code> from different directories, this makes centralising scripts and cli commands very straightforward.</p>