Non-interactive version?

[indigoviolet]

Would be nice to have a non-interactive version for shell scripts

[iainelder]

By default:

• choose the latest release
• extract all executable files
• install to $HOME/bin

[redraw]

Hey! yeah, that would be nice, I'll take a look

@iainelder currently it saves to ~/.local/bin, but it can be overriden by setting the GH_BINPATH env.
Might also think about moving all executable files.

[iainelder]

That install location is fine and even better that there is an environment variable to control it.

I've tried a few other install-from-Github tools such as Rishang's install-release and Jooola's gh-release-install. Each has its pros and cons.

I'd be happy to try what you come up with if you want to give us another option :-)

[redraw]

Meanwhile, you could give a try to binenv, looks promising and more complete. It knows how to install a lot of popular projects, and I guess you can extend the $HOME/.config/binenv/distributions.yaml file if you need another one

[iainelder]

Nice, didn't know about binenv! This looks like a more general tool as well as mainly supporting binaries from Github Releases.

Reminds me of deb-get for Apt packages.

[3dyuval]

Hey, just came here to say I found this tool extremely helpful. Then I realised I always use it in the same way.
Then I saw there were others exactly like me, who need just the right tool for the job.

Hopefuly this PR closes this issue (and maybe begin a new chapter?)

[redraw]

yeah, I actually liked the simplicity of the current version, but I'm open to merge yours! just testing a few cases now