* iMake - GNU Make REPL. This is a bash script written
as a wrapper around make. Runs `make` in the
background and sends user input to the process.
If the process exits with an error due to
invalid input then it will be reloaded with
all variable values still intact. Also, iMake
supports a few special commands for convenience:
print, info, origin, value
Sample session:
# Set some variables. What you type will
# be sent verbatim to make, except for
# a few select iMake commands.
make> g = 5
make> h = $(g)
make> $(info $(h))
5
# Here are some iMake special commands:
make> info h # like $(info h)
h
make> info $(h) # like $(info $(h))
5
make> value h # like $(value h)
$(g)
make> print h # like $(info $(h))
5
make> origin h # $(info $(origin h))
file
# We can still type it the long way
make> $(info $(origin h))
file
# Try a more complex command
make> info $(patsubst %,%.x,$(h))
5.x
# Try an invalid command
make> invalid_command
./.makepipe.6448:33: *** missing separator. Stop.
# Make has reloaded due to the error,
# but our variable values from this
# session are still intact:
make> print h
5
# Now source a Makefile into the session.
# (no targets are run).
make> . src/Makefile
# At this point all variables loaded
# from the Makefile are available for
# inspection/changing in the REPL.
make> quit
* recycle - Recycle Bin for Linux. This is intended as a
replacement for the `rm` command. Instead of
deleting a file it will simply move it to the
/tmp/recycle folder (after having flattened
the file path by replacing / with _. It will
place that file in a folder marked with the
current time stamp for easy recovery.