ucli

Tool Manager

The universal command-line interface for managing and installing all your development tools

Install ucli

curl -fsSL https://install.ucli.tools/install.sh | bash

ucli <command> [tool ...]

Why UCLI?

One tool to rule them all - manage your entire CLI toolkit

One-Command Builds
ucli build <tool> clones the tool's repository at the commit the registry pins and runs its make build. ucli installs itself to ~/.local/bin without sudo; a tool installs where its own Makefile says.
Prerequisites
ucli prereq installs git, make and the other basics with apt, dnf, pacman or brew. Where a registry entry has a requires: list, ucli checks that each of those programs is installed.
Versions by Pin
Each tool is built at a commit pinned in the registry. ucli versions shows them. ucli update, run by hand, updates the tools you have installed; nothing updates by itself.
Removable
ucli remove <tool> runs the tool's own delete target. ucli uninstall removes ucli and its state and leaves the tools you installed.
Linux and macOS
ucli is a bash script and is not supported natively on Windows. On Windows, run it inside WSL.
Tested End to End
A nightly test builds mdtexpdf and docx2md through ucli, and a weekly one builds mdaudiobook.
Open Source
ucli and every tool in the registry are open source, each in its own repository.

Command	What it does
`ucli build <tool> ...`	Build and install one or more tools from the registry
`ucli build-all`	Build every tool listed by ucli list
`ucli list`	List the official tools from the registry
`ucli versions [tool]`	Show version information (--all for every tool)
`ucli update`	Update all installed tools
`ucli remove <tool>`	Uninstall a tool with its make delete target
`ucli prereq`	Install prerequisites (apt, dnf, pacman, brew)
`ucli install`	Install ucli to ~/.local/bin, no sudo
`ucli uninstall`	Remove ucli and its state; installed tools stay
`ucli --version, ucli --help`	Print the version, or the command list