Open the pkgx.dev listing page for a program.

$ mash info <program>

# for funsies, open a random package
$ mash info --random

Note, fully qualified package names will not work, eg mash info git-scm.org.

List all installed pkgx packages that are outdated.

mash outdated

Ensure a command is available. If a system command is found it is used, otherwise the command is run via pkgx. Optionally can output env-style.

$ mash ensure git status
# runs system-installed git with arg `status` unless there is none, in which
# case uses pkgx to invoke `git status`.

$ eval "$(mash ensure +git +cargo +npm)"
# imports the above commands into your shell environment

# same as the above
$ eval "$(mash ensure --env git cargo npm)"

Transcribe YouTube videos fast with local AI.

Locally transcribe a remote YouTube video using yt-dlp, ffmpeg, whisper.cpp downloading the whisper model using huggingface-cli.

$ mash transcribe <YOUTUBE-URL>
# ^^ you probs need to quote that URL

Additional arguments are passed to whisper.cpp, eg. --no-timestamps or -nt for no timestamps. Use pkgx whisper.cpp --help for more options.

whisper.cpp is very noisy, you can hide all the informational messages by sending stderr to null:

mash transcribe youtu.be/xiq5euezOEQ 2>/dev/null

Redirecting stdout to a file means that file contains only the transcript:

mash transcribe youtu.be/xiq5euezOEQ -nt > transcription.txt

Cronic is an old-school shell script that helps control the most annoying feature of cron: unwanted emailed output, or "cram" (cron spam).

$ crontab -l

 0 12 * * * /path/to/mash cronic /path/to/your/script.sh

Ensures the latest version of all installed pkgx packages are installed. Older versions are not removed (see mash prune).

$ mash upgrade

$ mash upgrade git
# ^^ only upgrade git

Miss the old pkgx^1 magic? Here you go.

eval "$(mash magic)"