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Introduction


Jake is a build utility. Its name comes from: Jobs Make. Parallel jobs are used to make goals.


Jake was inspired by the reliable "make" utility. However, the goal is not to support everything make can do. Rather, to provide a clear approach to achieve user-defined goals.

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Wildcard Patterns

  • Special markers:

    • ? == any char
    • * == "" "any-chars"
    • a|b == a || b
  • A match action will skip over ./ or ../ at start of string, to avoid an unexpected match with .* in file-path.

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