Iko

Japanese for "go"

Iko is a commandline based task runner for windows. This is written purely for my purpose but if there is enough interest, I'd be happy to make it more generic

Motivation

Some everyday tasks, I find rather mundane:

• Open certain folders
• Open certain SLN files with certain Visual Studio versions
• Open Hosts file

And I didn't want to do any of this manually. So I wrote Iko

Solution

Iko uses Toml to define the commands that can be run. Assume you want to perform 3 tasks

• Open a folder
• Open hosts file
• Open a SLN file

Then you'd define ~/iko.toml like so:

[foobar]
cmd = 'folder'
path = 'C:\path\to\selected\folder'

[hosts]
cmd = 'vim'
as-admin = true
path = 'C:\windows\system32\drivers\etc\hosts'

[iko]
cmd = 'vs17'
path = 'C:\Users\shrayasr\code\iko\iko.sln'

And from anywhere, after adding iko to path, you'd be able to execute any of these tasks using their names. So:

• iko foobar opens the C:\path\to\selected\folder folder
• iko hosts opens the hosts file in a vim started as administrator
• iko iko opens Iko's solution with visual studio 2017

Possible commands

Currently, the following values are allowed in the cmd section

• browser
• vs15
• vs17
• folder
• vim
• vscode

PRs are welcome for new runners :)