I do most things from cli and only use ui's as a last resort, but I have been interested in looking into this for a little while, maybe it's time to check it out...
On another sort of off-topic note; I love wget and all, but I don't understand why lots of these GitHub projects don't have installers. I know most of us devs like to do things manually, but it's nothing anymore to build a quick installer for any files at GitHub, especially with JSDELIVR, which seems pretty dependable and if an installer is open source and does what it says then I prefer to use it. I built a nice reusable method in Rust recently to do so and so I've already built installers for a few other people's projects to use myself lol and one project that is released officially.
And on another sort of off-topic note: have you heard of axel as an alternative to wget? It's not necessarily a replacement as there are a couple of things it can't do that wget can, but for normal case uses axel is like a hot rod that goes from 0-60 in a few seconds and especially great for large files.
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Definitely give this one a try. It is so ridiculously quick and easy to keyboard navigate. Makes for a good tool to have in your toolbelt.
I'm with ya on all of these amazing new rust cli tools that are wicked fast all being deployed to github releases. I am surprised that there is not an installer tool for that use case.
I have not used axel, I may need to check that out.
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I do most things from cli and only use ui's as a last resort, but I have been interested in looking into this for a little while, maybe it's time to check it out...
On another sort of off-topic note; I love wget and all, but I don't understand why lots of these GitHub projects don't have installers. I know most of us devs like to do things manually, but it's nothing anymore to build a quick installer for any files at GitHub, especially with JSDELIVR, which seems pretty dependable and if an installer is open source and does what it says then I prefer to use it. I built a nice reusable method in Rust recently to do so and so I've already built installers for a few other people's projects to use myself lol and one project that is released officially.
And on another sort of off-topic note: have you heard of
axelas an alternative to wget? It's not necessarily a replacement as there are a couple of things it can't do that wget can, but for normal case uses axel is like a hot rod that goes from 0-60 in a few seconds and especially great for large files.Definitely give this one a try. It is so ridiculously quick and easy to keyboard navigate. Makes for a good tool to have in your toolbelt.
I'm with ya on all of these amazing new rust cli tools that are wicked fast all being deployed to github releases. I am surprised that there is not an installer tool for that use case.
I have not used axel, I may need to check that out.