dex

A command-line tool that downloads files and automatically extracts archives.

Think curl or wget, but if the file is an archive, it gets extracted for you.

Supported Formats

• .tar.gz / .tgz
• .tar.bz2 / .tbz2
• .tar.xz / .txz
• .tar.zst / .tzst
• .zip
• .gz
• .bz2
• .xz
• .zst

Installation

From GitHub Releases

Download a prebuilt binary from the releases page.

From Source

cargo install --git https://github.com/idlebot/dex

Usage

# Download and auto-extract an archive
dex https://example.com/archive.tar.gz

# Extract to a specific directory
dex https://example.com/archive.tar.gz -o ./mydir

# Download without extracting
dex https://example.com/archive.tar.gz --no-extract

# Download, extract, and keep the original archive
dex https://example.com/archive.tar.gz --keep

# Download a regular file (no extraction needed)
dex https://example.com/file.txt

GitHub Releases

Point dex at a GitHub releases page and it automatically picks the right binary for your platform:

# Download latest release for your platform
dex https://github.com/BurntSushi/ripgrep/releases

# Download a specific version
dex https://github.com/BurntSushi/ripgrep/releases/tag/14.1.1

# Just the repo URL works too
dex https://github.com/BurntSushi/ripgrep

# Override platform/arch detection
dex https://github.com/BurntSushi/ripgrep/releases --platform linux --arch arm64

Set GITHUB_TOKEN to avoid API rate limits:

export GITHUB_TOKEN=ghp_...

Contributing

See CONTRIBUTING.md for development setup and guidelines.

License

MIT