• A modern command line job processor :rocket:
• Can execute jobs concurrently. :rocket:
• Alternative to make :rocket:

Installation

Arch Linux

Available in the AUR: neph-git

Mac

You can install Neph with brew.

$ brew tap tbrand/homebrew-neph
$ brew install neph

Manual

Build dependencies:

• crystal and shards for building the binary
• go-md2man for generating the man page

It needs libyaml to be installed.

$ git clone https://github.com/tbrand/neph
$ cd neph
$ shards build    # Now executable binary is located at bin/neph
$ bin/neph man    # Generate man page. It will be located at neph.1

Usage

See the example build file: example/neph.yaml

Contributing

You can contribute even if you don't know Crystal. How?

• You can learn Crystal. It's a very good language. https://crystal-lang.org/
• Contribute to go-md2man (written in Go), which is used to generate the man page.
• Contribute to the tools that we use in development of Neph:
  |project |lang | |Kakoune, a very good editor |C++ | |Elvish, a modern and user friendly shell |Go | |slit, a modern pager |Go | |exa, a modern replacement for ls |Rust | |fd, a modern replaement for find |Rust |

If you know Crystal

Pull requests are welcome. Please set up the pre-commit Git hook before starting:

ln -s ../../pre-commit .git/hooks/pre-commit

Use cases

Neph is used in which_is_the_fastest.
The build time is reduced from 102[sec] to 33[sec].
The neph.yaml is here.

Contributors

• tbrand Taichiro Suzuki - creator, maintainer
• notramo Márton Szabó - maintainer