When I run rake --tasks looking for a particular command, I hate the process of picking up the mouse to copy and paste. I am very weak with my bash-fu and so I decided to ask someone. Thanks to one of my friends and co-workers, Sandro Turriate, I do not have to pick up the mouse anymore.
I use grep to single out the specific tasks I want, such as rake --tasks | grep db would only find commands containing the letters ‘db’.
Run rake --tasks | grep faker (where faker is what you are looking for), until you find ONLY the task you want to run.
Then run
rake --tasks | grep faker | sh and it runs the output. And of course # gets ignored.
