Psake Enhancements

Psake is a make-like tool written in PowerShell. Instead of a makefile you write a psakefile.ps1 which consists of a set of tasks. Calling psake <task name> searches for a psakefile.ps1 in the current directory to then call the given task. Most of the time I store my psakefile.ps1 in the root of my git project, which means that I have to set the working directory of my terminal to this directory. I have recently created a small PowerShell script which helps me to remember task names (using fzf) while also giving me the option to call psake anywhere in my git projects:

$root = git rev-parse --show-toplevel
if ($LASTEXITCODE -ne 0) { exit $LASTEXITCODE }

try {
    Push-Location $root

    # This search approach is not perfect, but works for my needs
    $tasks = Get-Content 'psakefile.ps1' |
      Select-String -Pattern '^task\s+(.+?)\s+' -AllMatches |
      ForEach-Object { $_.Matches.Groups[1].Value }

    $selectedTask = $tasks | fzf

    if ($selectedTask) {
        psake $selectedTask
    }
}
finally {
    Pop-Location
}