Installation

scripttool is a command line program run from a shell like Bash. You can find compiled version in the releases

Quick install via curl or irm

This project can be installed via curl and sh for POSIX compatible systems. Enter the following in your shell.

curl https://rsdoiel.github.io/scripttool/installer.sh | sh

On Windows use the following Powershell command.

irm https://rsdoiel.github.io/scripttool/installer.ps1 | iex

Compiled version

This is generalized instructions for a release.

Compiled versions are available for Mac OS (Intel and M1/M2 processor, macOS-x86_64, macOS-arm64), Linux (Intel process, Linux-x86_64), Windows (Intel processor, Windows-x86_64), Raspberry Pi OS (arm7 32bit processor, RaspberryPiOS-arm7) and Pine64 (arm64 processor, Linux-aarch64)

VERSION_NUMBER is a semantic version number (e.g. v0.1.2)

For all the released version go to the project page on GitHub and click latest release

https://github.com/rsdoiel/scripttool/releases/latest

The basic recipe

• Find the Zip file listed matching the architecture you’re running and download it
  • (e.g. if you’re on a Windows 10 laptop/Surface with a amd64 style CPU you’d choose the Zip file with “windows-amd64” in the name).
• Download the zip file and unzip the file.
  
• Copy the contents of the folder named “bin” to a folder that is in your path
  • (e.g. “$HOME/bin” is common).
• Adjust your PATH if needed
  • (e.g. export PATH=“HOME/bin:PATH”)
• Test

Mac OS

1. Download the zip file
2. Unzip the zip file
3. Copy the executable to $HOME/bin (or a folder in your path)
4. Make sure the new location in in our path
5. Test

Here’s an example of the commands run in the Terminal App after downloading the zip file.

    cd Downloads/
    unzip scripttool-*-macOS-x86_64.zip
    mkdir -p $HOME/bin
    cp -v bin/* $HOME/bin/
    export PATH=$HOME/bin:$PATH
    scripttool -version

Windows

1. Download the zip file
2. Unzip the zip file
3. Copy the executable to $HOME/bin (or a folder in your path)
4. Test

Here’s an example of the commands run in from the Bash shell on Windows 10 after downloading the zip file.

    cd Downloads/
    unzip scripttool-*-Windows-x86_64.zip
    mkdir -p $HOME/bin
    cp -v bin/* $HOME/bin/
    export PATH=$HOME/bin:$PATH
    scripttool -version

Linux

1. Download the zip file
2. Unzip the zip file
3. Copy the executable to $HOME/bin (or a folder in your path)
4. Test

Here’s an example of the commands run in from the Bash shell after downloading the zip file.

    cd Downloads/
    unzip scripttool-*-Linux-x86_64.zip
    mkdir -p $HOME/bin
    cp -v bin/* $HOME/bin/
    export PATH=$HOME/bin:$PATH
    scripttool -version

Raspberry Pi OS

Released version is for a Raspberry Pi 3 or later use (i.e. requires ARM 7 support).

1. Download the zip file
2. Unzip the zip file
3. Copy the executable to $HOME/bin (or a folder in your path)
4. Test

Here’s an example of the commands run in from the Bash shell after downloading the zip file.

    cd Downloads/
    unzip scripttool-*-RaspberryPiOS-arm7.zip
    mkdir -p $HOME/bin
    cp -v bin/* $HOME/bin/
    export PATH=$HOME/bin:$PATH
    scripttool -version

Compiling from source

scripttool is “go gettable”. Use the “go get” command to download the dependent packages as well as scripttool’s source code.

    go get -u github.com/rsdoiel/scripttool/...

Or clone the repository and then compile

    cd
    git clone https://github.com/rsdoiel/scripttool src/github.com/rsdoiel/scripttool
    cd src/github.com/rsdoiel/scripttool
    make
    make test
    make install