Maintaining Files on Plan 9 with Mk

https://9p.io/sys/doc/mk.html

by jsfcoding • 4 years ago

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bkq2• 4 years ago

Archive link as I'm having issues accessing the page: https://archive.ph/7GWAI

nortonham• 4 years ago

thanks

black_knight6• 4 years ago

I use mk for all my personal projects. It is such a useful place to store maintenance operations on files exactly where they are needed. Not just build-type operations, but also syncing with remote stuff and other maintenance things.

My webside is managed by a big mkfile which builds html from markdown using pandoc and deploys over ssh. There is even a target in there for checking for dead links using curl.

I just counted: 778 mkfiles in my personal files.

bkq2• 4 years ago

That sounds really interesting, any chance you could post the mkfile you use for that?

black_knight6• 4 years ago

Sure, I will post it once I get home. There is no hocus pocus in it, but I has been working for me without issue for close to a decade already.

black_knight6• 4 years ago

Here it is: https://okturing.com/src/14174/body

Just say if something needs explaining. There are some references to other fines in there, like the deployment index (its just list of files to deploy) and the comment blob (it is just a notice that people can comment by e-mail.

daptaq• 4 years ago

Any reason you chose to use mk over (GNU) Make?

black_knight6• 4 years ago

Mostly just the simpler syntax. I always found makefiles a bit off-putting. On the other hand, the syntax for mkfiles, especially with rc as the mk shell, feels slick and homely.

Crontab2• 4 years ago

Is the make from Go based on the Plan 9 Mk? Or is it something else entirely?

ainar-g• 4 years ago

What do you mean by “make from Go”?

Crontab2• 4 years ago

Nevermind, I see that Go has a build subcommand.

jonpalmisc• 4 years ago

Source code for the curious: https://github.com/0intro/plan9/tree/main/sys/src/cmd/mk

Maintaining Files on Plan 9 with Mk

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