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-<h1 align="center"><pre><code>$ bake</code><em>, n</em>:<pre><em>the strangely familiar task runner</em>.</h1>
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+<h1><pre><code>$ bake</code><em>, n</em>:<pre><em>the strangely familiar task runner</em>.</h1>
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 ![vanity image](https://github.com/kennethreitz/bake/blob/master/ext/img.jpg?raw=true)