I made a tool to download and run popular CLI tools like youtube-dl, jq, and ripgrep without installing them

• 1bin

  1 24 7.2 Shell

It's been working pretty well so I thought I'd share. You can visit 1bin.org to find download links and copy/paste friendly snippets to install each tool, or check out the repo if you're curious how it works.

• stew

  4 132 3.0 Go

  🥘 An independent package manager for compiled binaries.

This is a recipe for a disaster. Just use Stew.

• WorkOS

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  The modern identity platform for B2B SaaS. The APIs are flexible and easy-to-use, supporting authentication, user identity, and complex enterprise features like SSO and SCIM provisioning.

  

• nixpkgs

  974 15,656 10.0 Nix

  Nix Packages collection & NixOS

  

Nix is based around the concept of reproducible builds, and it takes care of checking the hashes for you: both the hashes of the sources files and the hashes of the built files, to ensure the software you get is what you expected. If you're really unsure, you can even review the package definition, to see how your app is being built (For example: the jq package).

• nix

  372 10,879 10.0 C++

  Nix, the purely functional package manager

  

For instance, if you use the Nix package manager, you can already "download and run popular CLI tools like youtube-dl, jq, and ripgrep without installing them." For example:

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