version: '3' vars: BUILD_DIR: sh: pwd tasks: abs.txt: desc: generates dest file based on absolute paths deps: - sub/src.txt dir: sub cmds: - cat src.txt > '{{.BUILD_DIR}}/abs.txt' method: timestamp sources: - src.txt generates: - "{{.BUILD_DIR}}/abs.txt" rel.txt: desc: generates dest file based on relative paths deps: - sub/src.txt dir: sub cmds: - cat src.txt > '../rel.txt' method: timestamp sources: - src.txt generates: - "../rel.txt" sub/src.txt: desc: generate source file cmds: - mkdir -p sub - echo "hello world" > sub/src.txt method: timestamp status: - test -f sub/src.txt 'my text file.txt': desc: generate file with spaces in the name deps: [sub/src.txt] cmds: - cat sub/src.txt > 'my text file.txt' method: timestamp sources: - sub/src.txt generates: - 'my text file.txt'