Does shake have an equivalent to make's dry-run option?

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The make utility lets you see what would be built, without actually building it, by using the command-line option --dry-run. Does shake have something equivalent?

score 2 · Answer 1 · answered Dec 01 '18 at 19:42

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The output of the --help flag suggests

--no-build                  Don't build anything.

is what what you want.

answered Dec 01 '18 at 19:42

John

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No build just builds nothing, it doesn't tell you what it would have built, so it's not quite the same. – Neil Mitchell Dec 02 '18 at 15:38
Oh I see. My bad. – John Dec 03 '18 at 00:26

score 2 · Answer 2 · answered Dec 02 '18 at 15:41

No, Shake doesn't have an equivalent, but there's a feature request for it at https://github.com/ndmitchell/shake/issues/172. It's not as simple in Shake since which rules are run can depend on the output of previous rules, but I have some ideas of how it could be implemented.

There is a --no-command flag which just skips running command/cmd things, which is sometimes sufficient for very specific use cases (but not usually).

Does shake have an equivalent to make's dry-run option?

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