List grunt.js tasks

Question

I'm trying to work out how to print a list of all available grunt tasks. With rake it would be:

$ rake -T

What's the equivalent for grunt? e.g.

$ grunt -T

score 174 · Accepted Answer · answered Feb 21 '13 at 19:49

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grunt --help lists available tasks.

answered Feb 21 '13 at 19:49

tJener

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ha! I completely missed that, saw the top section of commands but didn't notice the tasks were listed at the bottom... – opsb Feb 21 '13 at 20:09
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@tJener how to you list the tasks of a multi task: `grunt multi:task0`, `multi:task1`, etc.? – Ciro Santilli OurBigBook.com Jun 15 '14 at 13:56
on a sidenote, a related interesting dicussion about being able to create a public or private task here: https://github.com/gruntjs/grunt/issues/741 – Michahell Sep 24 '14 at 22:59
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@CiroSantilli I maintain a separate task listing module https://github.com/ben-eb/grunt-available-tasks which prints a task list, with multi-task targets, and without all of the noise that `grunt --help` generates. You might like to use it for now as a stop-gap, bearing in mind that it's been over a year since I first released it and still no option within grunt to hide tasks, etc. – Ben Dec 15 '14 at 11:03

score 4 · Answer 2 · answered Apr 27 '15 at 15:41

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Workaround for the list in sh/bash in case you need to trigger something and can't modify the original code:

grunt -h --no-color | sed -n '/^Available tasks/,/^$/ {s/^  *\([^ ]\+\)  [^ ]\+.*$/\1/p}'

answered Apr 27 '15 at 15:41

estani

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Sed program doesn't work: "/^Available tasks/,/^$/ ...": bad flag in substitute command: '}' – gotofritz Feb 02 '16 at 17:14
@gotofritz did you use single quotes? Double quotes have a different meaning check you sed documention otherwise. In case you use MacOs, it uses a different version of sed with a slightly different syntax. – estani Feb 03 '16 at 08:51
Yes, I was on OS X. But don't worry about it, I hardly use grunt these days anyway :-) – gotofritz Feb 05 '16 at 17:26

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