hackdates

Hackdates (Hacky updates) is a simple Bash-based tool that you can use to automate hacky, non-standardized updates, or just check if new versions are available (without performing an actual update).

For example, some tools (such as kubectl) need to be installed as a standalone binary. In such cases, the right way to perform an update is to download the new version of the tool to the same location, overwriting the existing binary locally. To automate such process, you can write a simple Bash script for each tool like that, and then use Hackdates to execute all of them at once.

Installation

Here is an example of how to set this up, with some predefined jobs:

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install -DT <(curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/dmotte/misc/main/scripts/hackdates/main.sh) ~/.hackdates/main.sh
mkdir ~/.hackdates/jobs

for i in kubectl helm; do
    echo "Installing Hackdates job $i"
    install -T <(curl -fsSL "https://raw.githubusercontent.com/dmotte/misc/main/scripts/hackdates/jobs/$i.sh") "$HOME/.hackdates/jobs/$i.sh"
done

Usage

You can leverage Shellmind to periodically ask the user to run this command:

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time ~/.hackdates/main.sh; echo $?