Ever find yourself deep inside a project tree, furiously typing cd ../../.. just to run a make command somewhere far away from your working directory?

Makeup is a tiny Zsh plugin that wraps your make command so that when you invoke make, it does the following:

1. Checks for a Makefile in the current folder.
2. If no makefile is found, instead of failing it "climbs" parent directories until it locates one.
3. Runs the requested target (or the default) in the directory it climbed to.
4. Returns you to your original working directory.

Let's say you have a Makefile defined at the root of your project.

hello:
  @echo "Hello, world!"

With the makeup plugin, you can now run the make hello command from any subdirectory, deep inside the project without navigating back and forth 👇

# ~/repos/makeup
$ cd demo/level1/level2/level3

# ~/repos/makeup/demofolder/level1/level2/level3
$ make hello # This would otherwise fail
💄 Looking for Makefile's in parent directories...

"Hello, World!" # Found the root Makefile and executed the target.

$ pwd # Returns you back to where you executed the make command.
~/repos/makeup/demo/level1/level2/level3

You can customize the behavior of the makeup plugin by setting environment variables in your .zshrc file.

# ~/.zshrc

# Configuration
export MAKEUP_CONFIRM=true
export MAKEUP_BASE_DIR="$HOME"

• MAKEUP_CONFIRM

This variable controls whether you want a confirmation prompt before the script runs. If set to true, it will show you the directory where it will run the make command.

• MAKEUP_BASE_DIR

This variable sets the root directory where the script will stop searching for a Makefile. If not set, it defaults to your home directory ($HOME). You can set it to any directory you want the script to stop searching at.

git clone https://github.com/arienshibani/makeup ${ZSH_CUSTOM:-~/.oh-my-zsh/custom}/plugins/makeup

Add to .zshrc:

plugins=(... makeup)

antigen bundle arienshibani/makeup

zinit light arienshibani/makeup

zplug "arienshibani/makeup"

# Clone repository
git clone https://github.com/arienshibani/makeup ~/.makeup

# Add to .zshrc
echo "source ~/.makeup/makeup.plugin.zsh" >> ~/.zshrc

After installation, restart your shell or run source ~/.zshrc.