cargo-cmd

Alias any shell command in your Cargo.toml. It's like npm scripts, but for cargo.

Installation

cargo install cargo-cmd

You can define your commands in Cargo.toml under the [package.metadata.commands] table, like so:

[package.metadata.commands]
greet = "echo 'Hello, planet!'"

Now you can run cargo cmd greet:

$ cargo cmd greet
> echo 'Hello, planet!'
Hello, planet!

It's possible to pass arguments into your command by passing them directly to cargo cmd.

[package.metadata.commands]
echo = "echo"

$ cargo cmd echo 'Hello, planet!'
> echo 'Hello, planet!'
Hello, planet!

You are able to set up commands to run before and after your command by prefixing the name with pre or post respectively.

[package.metadata.commands]
pretest = "./setup.sh"
test = "cargo test"
posttest = "./teardown.sh"

$ cargo cmd test

[pretest]
> ./setup.sh
Setting up DB...

[test]
> cargo test
...

[posttest]
> ./teardown.sh
Tearing down DB...