open-cli-tools / open-cli-tools/concurrently
Add CLI support for command templates/matrix commands
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Description
It would be useful to be able to generate the commands dynamically based on an environment variable. For example:
concurrently --matrix "A B C" "echo {}"
Which would be equivalent to typing:
concurrently "echo A" "echo B" "echo C"
Or with multiple values you could do:
concurrently --matrix "A B C" --matrix "1 2 3" "echo {1}{2}"
Which would be equivalent to writing:
concurrently "echo A1" "echo "A2" "echo A3" "echo B1" "echo B2" "echo B3" "echo C1" "echo C2" "echo C3"
This would be useful for common repetitive tasks that can happen in parallel. For example, let's say I want to download some docker image on a few different servers. I could do:
SERVERS="server1 server2"
IMAGES="python:3.11 node:20"
concurrently --group --matrix "$SERVERS" --matrix "$IMAGES" "ssh {1} 'docker pull {2}'"
This would help making concurrently a drop-in replacement for bash for-loops; the above would replace
for server in $SERVERS; do
for image in $IMAGES; do
ssh $server "docker pull $image"
done
done
It would also make concurrently a drop-in for a lot of gnu parallel usages, eg:
parallel --quote ssh {1} "docker pull {2}" ::: $SERVERS ::: $IMAGES
Another example: processing a lot files in parallel, eg less compiling a number of files:
concurrently --matrix "$(ls *.less)" --group "lessc {}"
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Research direction
Start with the issue's --matrix command examples and compare the requested behavior with the existing concurrently CLI entry point. Define how multiple matrices, placeholders, quoting, and empty values should behave; done means the documented examples expand into the expected commands and the feature is covered by tests.
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Assessment
- Tech stack
- shell, typescript
- Domain
- cli
- Issue type
- Feature
- Difficulty
- 5/5
- Estimated time
- Over a week
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Mostly clear
- Newbie friendliness
- 35/100