Bin is a command-line tool that facilitates the running of shell commands within an environment defined through a JSON or YAML file. In this tutorial, we will go through the steps of installing bin on OpenBSD.
Before you begin, make sure that you have:
In order to build and install bin, we need to install some dependencies. OpenBSD provides package manager that can be used to install the required packages:
$ sudo pkg_add -v perl git curl
We will download and install bin from the official GitHub repository. To do so, we need to clone the repository using git and compile the binary:
$ git clone https://github.com/w4/bin.git
$ cd bin
$ make
Once the build process finishes, you should have a bin binary in the current directory.
To install bin system-wide, we can use the OpenBSD package manager:
$ doas make install
To ensure that bin was installed correctly, run the following command:
$ bin env
This should print out the environment variables defined in the JSON or YAML file located in the default configuration directory (/etc/bin/env.json or /etc/bin/env.yaml).
In this tutorial, we have successfully installed bin on OpenBSD. You can now use bin to define and manage your shell environments. For more information on how to use bin, refer to the official documentation.
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