binary

Source code

This file contains functions for working with binaries

Index

• binary::exists
• binary::github
• binary::arch
• binary::jq
• binary::vale

binary::exists

Check if a binary exists

Example

binary::exists "curl" # succeeds (returns 0)
binary::exists "zcurl" # fails (returns 1)

Arguments

• $1 (string): binary name

Exit codes

• 0: If the binary exists
• 1: If the binary does not exist

Output on stderr

• The binary is required to run this script

binary::github

Download a binary from github

Example

# https://github.com/cli/cli/releases/download/v2.45.0/gh_2.45.0_linux_amd64.tar.gz
latest="$(github::latest "cli/cli")"
binary::github "./bin/gh" "cli/cli" "${latest}/gh_${latest:1}_$(uname -s)_$(uname -m).tar.gz" "gh_${latest:-1}_$(uname -s)_$(uname -m)/bin/gh"

Arguments

• $1 (string): path to binary
• $2 (string): GitHub repository
• $3 (string): file to download
• $4 (string): [opt] tar file to extract

binary::arch

Get the architecture of the system

Example

binary::arch # amd64

Output on stdout

• The architecture of the system

binary::jq

Download the jq binary into $PATH_BIN if it does not exist

Example

  binary::jq
https://github.com/jqlang/jq/releases/download/jq-1.7.1/jq-linux-amd64

binary::vale

Download the vale binary into $PATH_BIN if it does not exist

Example

  binary::vale
https://github.com/errata-ai/vale/releases/download/v2.28.0/vale_2.28.0_Linux_64-bit.tar.gz