dotlocalslashbin 0.0.27

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
• clear the cache beforehand

* 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 tool run git+https://github.com/maxwell-k/dotlocalslashbin --version

Example

For example to download tofu to the current working directory, first save the following as tofu.toml then run the command below.

[tofu]
url = "https://github.com/opentofu/opentofu/releases/download/v1.10.3/tofu_1.10.3_linux_amd64.zip"
expected = "acf330602ec6ae29ba68dd5d8eb1f645811ae9809231ecdccd4774b21d5c79bc"
version = "version"
ignore = ["LICENSE", "README.md", "CHANGELOG.md"]

Command:

uv tool run dotlocalslashbin --output=. tofu.toml

Further examples are available in files like linux-amd64.toml and github.toml in the bin directory of maxwell-k/dotfiles.

See also

https://github.com/buildinspace/peru