It's a package manager[1]. This wasn't obvious on first glance.
This has a lot of red flags: it looks like it's mostly machine translated, the packages come from unclear sources, and the GitHub repository itself appears to mostly contain scaffolding, none of the actual code of the manager itself[2]
Instead of using a dodgy package manager, install `nix` and use `nix run`. Get access to the largest collection of packages, and lean on a highly principled and secure baseline rather than… whatever this is. Easy to install on Mac, Linux, or WSL: https://github.com/DeterminateSystems/nix-installer?tab=read...
klohto · 4h ago
I was going to comment how nix run still has to resolve the dependencies and the build, but you’re indeed correct, it’s way better than whatever this is supposed to solve.
Liftyee · 8h ago
Interesting tool, but I haven't yet seen the point of typing "x ping ..." over just "ping ..." can someone enlighten me? Is it just to save the effort of manually installing all the other open source tools, or to get some fancy output format/config defaults?
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hagfjall · 8h ago
Looks like an interactive overlay/replacement of similar tools like `ls`.
https://www.x-cmd.com/mod/jq is good example. `jq` and a couple of other tools that I run not-so-often leads to me needing to run i tseveral times with different arguments to get it correct, or read the manual once again. This tool might be helpful for those scenarios.
reader9274 · 8h ago
Doesn't pass the smell test. I'll stay away
echelon · 8h ago
I don't get this. Why would you put another command in front of the command you're trying to run? An extra layer of indirection, more typing, another dependency... what's there to gain here?
jauntywundrkind · 8h ago
This is a hard pass for me, but I did run into a neat well thought out genuine all-in-one (ish) dev machine helper tool this past spring. Driving me batty, but I cannot seem to find it again.
I think I was looking at distrobox or toolbox at the time, for graphical dev containers. And it has some helpers for that. There was a ton of other general quality of life stuff, for random laptop tasks. As much as anything I'm just so curious to see what all is packed in. Much smaller list, only like 60 subcommands.
Big contrast: afaik what I ran across relies on a lot of actually good open source software being already installed. In retrospect it seems really cool having a curated means to operate a laptop, to not have to go seek out tools for z y then z, never knowing what you are missing, when someone can have a nice all in one command for all kinds of little system management tasks.
asdefghyk · 8h ago
a command with a SIMILIAR NAME - xcmd on linux is a remote command execution tool. Seems different from the quoted one ......
This has a lot of red flags: it looks like it's mostly machine translated, the packages come from unclear sources, and the GitHub repository itself appears to mostly contain scaffolding, none of the actual code of the manager itself[2]
[1]: https://www.x-cmd.com/install/
[2]: https://github.com/x-cmd/x-cmd/tree/main
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https://www.x-cmd.com/mod/jq is good example. `jq` and a couple of other tools that I run not-so-often leads to me needing to run i tseveral times with different arguments to get it correct, or read the manual once again. This tool might be helpful for those scenarios.
I think I was looking at distrobox or toolbox at the time, for graphical dev containers. And it has some helpers for that. There was a ton of other general quality of life stuff, for random laptop tasks. As much as anything I'm just so curious to see what all is packed in. Much smaller list, only like 60 subcommands.
Big contrast: afaik what I ran across relies on a lot of actually good open source software being already installed. In retrospect it seems really cool having a curated means to operate a laptop, to not have to go seek out tools for z y then z, never knowing what you are missing, when someone can have a nice all in one command for all kinds of little system management tasks.