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PSA: Eget That Executable from GitHub
tldr: GitHub is where most CLI tools live. eget is a tool that makes it easy to download and install their binaries.
For example, I had to write an Ansible playbook to map the current architecture into multiple naming conventions (e.g., one has to map uname architecture like x86_64 into Golang amd64), deal with the fact that some projects ( cough ksops cough) have their own conventions, download the release, and then have three different ways to untar/unzip/chmod the downloaded file. It’s a tool that encodes all of these heuristics into a simple command eget owner/repo that downloads the latest release of a GitHub repo into current directory. The worst part of using eget is that it isn’t published in a distro so one has to do the usual curl ... | sh dance to install it.
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