dotlocalslashbin 0.0.12

Download and extract files to `~/.local/bin/`.

dotlocalslashbin → Download to ~/.local/bin/

Features

Uses a TOML configuration file, by default bin.toml and has no dependencies beyond the Python standard library. Supports the following actions after downloading the URL* to a cache:

• extract to the output directory — from zip or tar files — or
• create a symbolic link in the output directory or
• run a command for example to correct the shebang line in a zipapp or
• copy the downloaded file

Guesses the correct action if none is specified. By default caches downloads to ~/.cache/dotlocalslashbin/.

Optionally can:

• run a command after download for example to correct a shebang line
• confirm a SHA256 or SHA512 hex-digest of the downloaded file
• invoke the target with an argument, for example --version
• strip a prefix while extracting
• ignore certain files while extracting

* if the URL is an absolute path on the local file system; it is not downloaded to the cache.

Installation

The recommended way to run dotlocalslashbin is with uv.

Command to install the latest released dotlocalslashbin from PyPI:

uv tool install dotlocalslashbin

Command to run latest development version of dotlocalslashbin directly from GitHub:

uv run https://raw.githubusercontent.com/maxwell-k/dotlocalslashbin/refs/heads/main/src/dotlocalslashbin.py --version

Examples

For example to download yq to the current working directory, first save the following as yq.toml, then install with uv (above) and then run the command below:

[yq]
expected = "cfbbb9ba72c9402ef4ab9d8f843439693dfb380927921740e51706d90869c7e1"
url = "https://github.com/mikefarah/yq/releases/download/v4.43.1/yq_linux_amd64"
version = "--version"

Command:

dotlocalslashbin --input=yq.toml --output=.

Further examples are available in bin.toml in maxwell-k/dotfiles.

See also

https://github.com/buildinspace/peru