Getting started

Use case: your very first Runefile — the smallest example that shows a task, a parameter, and a dependency.

Demonstrates: tasks, parameters, dependencies · Guide: Runefile language

Prerequisites: none (uses the built-in cross-platform shell)

Run it

rune --file Runefile check

(or, from this directory, just rune check.)

Expected output

Hello, world! This is your first Rune task.
All good ✓

check depends on greet, so greet runs first. Run rune greet Ada to pass an argument, or rune --list to see both tasks with their descriptions.

How it works

# Greet someone by name (defaults to "world").
greet name="world":
    @echo "Hello, "{{quote(name)}}"! This is your first Rune task."

# Run the project's checks; `greet` runs first as a dependency.
check: greet
    @echo "All good ✓"

• name="world" is a parameter with a default; {{quote(name)}} passes it to the command as one quoted argument.
• check: greet declares a dependency — greet runs first, at most once per invocation.
• The leading @ suppresses echoing the command line before it runs.