Overriding Task Name¶

You can override the task name printed on the summary by using the label: field in your Taskfile. This is useful when you want to customize how tasks are displayed in the output, especially when using variables.

Taskfile.yaml

version: '3'
tasks:
  display:
    internal: true
    label: 'display-{{.MESSAGE}}'
    cmds:
      - echo "{{.MESSAGE}}"
  test:
    cmds:
      - task: display
        vars:
          MESSAGE: hello
      - task: display
        vars:
          MESSAGE: world

Demo and Output

ubuntu@touted-mite:~$ task test 
task: [display-hello] echo "hello"
hello
task: [display-world] echo "world"
world