Run Anything

Run anything:
$ tea openai --version
openai 0.27.8
Command not found? Command no problem.
$ deno run https://example.com/hello-world.ts
^^ type `tea` to run that
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$ tea
tea +deno && deno run https://example.com/hello-world.ts
deno: hello, world!
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$ deno --version
deno 1.36.1
# ^^ deno is added to the environment for the session duration
We provide the alias t so this workflow can be as quick and convenient as possible:
$ npx kill-port 8080
# ^^ type `tea` to run that
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$ t
tea +npx && npx kill-port 8080
Run Any Version
$ tea postgres@12 --version
postgres (PostgreSQL) 12.14
Generally you probably want @ syntax, but if you need more specificity we fully support SemVer:
$ tea postgres^12 --version
postgres (PostgreSQL) 12.14
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$ tea "postgres>=12<14" --version
postgres (PostgreSQL) 13.11
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$ tea deno=1.35.3 --version
deno 1.35.3
Running the Latest Version
tea foo runs the latest “foo” that is installed.
If you want to ensure the latest version of foo is installed, use tea foo@latest.
Specify tea@latest to ensure you have the latest tea installed.
$ tea@latest npx@latest cowsay@latest 'fancy a cuppa?'
 ________________
< fancy a cuppa? >
 ----------------
        \   ^__^
         \  (oo)\_______
            (__)\       )\/\
                ||----w |
                ||     ||
The newer tea is installed to ~/.tea like every other pkg. If your tea is installed to /usr/local/bin then it will proxy forward to the newest version installed automatically; you don’t need to upgrade it.
Endpoints
Some packages provide typical usages via an endpoint entry in their pantry entry and can be started via tea run.
These are often used to do the equivalent of a project’s getting started steps. For example tea run llama.cpp downloads the model and launches a chat interface and tea run stable-diffusion-webui launches the web-ui.
Adding Additional Packages to the Execution Environment
With our shellcode tea +openssl adds OpenSSL to the shell environment. When using tea as a runner you can add additional packages to the execution environment with the same syntax:
$ tea +openssl cargo build
tea: added ~/.tea/openssl.org/v1.1.1 to the execution environment
cargo: Compiling my-rust-ssl-proj
Idiomatically, -node can be used to exclude a package that may already exist in the environment.
'-*' can be used to exclude everything. Note that you typically will need to quote the asterisk since shells will otherwise interpret it as an attempt to glob.
The first argument that doesn’t start with `-` or `+` is considered the first argument to the runner. All arguments that follow are passed to that program. {% endhint }
Disambiguation
In some cases tea foo may be ambiguous because multiple packages provide foo.
In such cases tea will error and ask you be more specific by using fully-qualified-names :
$ tea yarn --version
error: multiple projects provide `yarn`. please be more specific:
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    tea +classic.yarnpkg.com yarn --version
    tea +yarnpkg.com yarn --version
In general it's a good idea to specify fully qualified names in scripts, etc. since these will always be unambiguous.
Running System Commands
It can be useful to run system commands with a package environment injected. To do this specify the full path of the system executable:
tea +llvm.org /usr/bin/make
If you only specified make rather than /usr/bin/make then tea would install make for you and use that.
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