- name: Install deps.clj, posing as clojure
        run: | 
          # bash script below

latest_release="$(curl -sL )"
          download_url=""

echo -e "Downloading $download_url."

curl -o "deps.clj-$latest_release-linux-amd64.zip" -sL ""

unzip -qqo "deps.clj-$latest_release-linux-amd64.zip"

rm "deps.clj-$latest_release-linux-amd64.zip"

sudo mv deps /usr/local/bin/clojure # let it pose as the real Clojure CLI, since later steps will call `clojure` directly!

nice :)

If you're also installing babashka in the same build, then you can skip this and use bb clojure instead

but then you need to install a bash shim for clojure -> bb clojure . I've posted that once in this channel

Thanks for the tip - yes, but no, it's because the Datomic Cloud Ion deployment tool calls directly clojure <args>. 🙂 So I'm quite happy with deps.clj in this action which only needs "clojure" for this single thing.

Oh, the bash shim would do it, yes! Then I suppose I could compare binary size of deps vs bb but someone might challenge me in asking: does it truly matter, does it make your action setup even 1 second longer? 🙂

the binary size of deps is way smaller

Yeah, I'd expect deps to be e.g. 20 MB and bb e.g. 80 MB 🙂

seems right

Existing storage solutions: • https://github.com/babashka/pod-registry/blob/master/examples/datalevin.clj • https://github.com/babashka/pod-registry/blob/master/examples/go_sqlite3.clj • https://github.com/babashka/pod-registry/blob/master/examples/stash.clj

is cd supported?

Hi Eric, try

{:min-bb-version "0.4.0"
 :tasks {test (shell "cd" "server")}}

also, sometimes space characters are required - something is tricky

makes sense! but I think I'll use @U04V15CAJ’s suggestion

(shell {:dir "server"} "clojure -M:test")

thank you!

oh yes, that's good, but you'll probably need to split clojure from its args too 🙂 I often use this wrapper:

(defn eshell [& args]
            (let [s-args (str/join " " (map str/trimr args))]
              (println s-args)
              (println)
              (apply shell args)))

Incredible to be helping you a bit, you who helps us so much!!! :star-struck:

> oh yes, that's good, but you'll probably need to split clojure from its args too Actually I didn't need to split, it worked :thinking_face: Nice wrapper, I think I'll swap to it! > Incredible to be helping you a bit, you who helps us so much!!! 😄 Thank you!

shell does not need splitting

the issue was that eric tried to put a bash expression in there, that's not how it works

The master is here now (I didn't remark your answers at the top-level)

haha, yeah, I was missing something like that wrapper, where I could run multiple commands easily, I forgot I could create a function at bb.edn

you can also use babashka.process/tokenize if you want to manually split a "shell" string

it supports double and single quotes mixed

thanks for explanations; gotta take a look at tokenize in next bb.edn rampage session!

Sorry to notify you, I wanted to bring back in this thread Michiel's answer for future reference in the thread (I added a link to the thread in our code's TODO!) https://clojurians.slack.com/archives/CLX41ASCS/p1649367592881239 https://clojurians.slack.com/archives/CLX41ASCS/p1649367701554329

Don't know how I ended up so far back in the history. Waking up an old thread here: 😬 It's a classic mistake that I have made countless times: When using any program that exec's binaries it is so easy to think that it is a shell interpreter. But don't forget that you can get around it by explicitly executing bash with -c parameter, and then provide the entire command as a single parameter following -c. When bash is doing the interpretation then you can use all expressions, job control, conditionals, and importantly, expansion of environment variables!

bb -o '(shell/sh "bash" "-c" "cd /tmp && ls")'
bb -o '(shell/sh "bash" "-c" "echo $BASH_VERSION")'

Also, the original IOException error above - "cd" is not an executable program but just a built in command that bash interprets.

In bb you do this via the :dir option: (shell {:dir "/tmp"} "ls")

I'm doing this:

:tasks{
deploy-clojars-server (shell {:dir "server"} "clojure -T:build deploy-clojars")
}

I was thinking, maybe there is some function, like (tools/build "deploy-clojars")

that sounds awesome, not sure is possible tho, also one more deps to bb

I have 6 tasks on my bb.edn doing something like that

I can always create a function, but I thought it would be a convenient built-in

@ericdallo it doesn't have that. There is however, tools.bbuild which allows you to use tools.build natively ;) https://github.com/babashka/tools.bbuild

hahah that looks nice, but I would like to keep all build logic on a build.clj still, is that possible?

There is also https://github.com/babashka/neil which has the neil add build command which installs a default tools.build build.clj file for you

Yes of course, it doesn't matter where you put that code

oh, I can just require it you mean from a local build.clj?

tools.bbuild is meant to be used with babashka and is considered experimental

oh, acutally bb tasks support namespaces

will give it a try

but in general you can just use tools.build on the JVM and use shell or clojure in bb tasks to invoke it

(clojure "-T:build uberjar")

yeah, but if I had bb speed that would be super cool :)

ok, then tools.bbuild is the thing to try :)

yeah, will try and let you know!

tools.bbuild is such a good name 😂

I love that I went looking for bb and tools.build and tools.bbuild already exists 🙌 Agree the name is great!