Up

A very simple rust program that updates all your software when you need it.

TL;DR: up launches a bunch of commands you can't be bothered to remember concurrently so it goes faster!

Instead of typing five different commands to update your distro's package manager, rustup, pip and node, you just run up and it launches everything at once.

Up uses rayon for multi-threading.

Features / Roadmap

• Read list of commands from standard location (ex: XDG user directory on linux)
• Select list of commands from the cli
• Create multiple command groups and select them from the cli
• Runs reliably in the background with a simple way to tell that something failed
• Write a cron job
• Colors and loading icon

Installation

Pre-built binaries

You can get pre-built binaries here.

If your platform is not present, feel free to open an issue and ask for it.

You can then install the binary on your system.

sudo cp ~/Downloads/up /usr/bin/

# Or for user-level install
cp ~/Downloads/up ~/.local/bin/
# You may need to add this directory to your path
export PATH="$PATH:$HOME/.local/bin" # <-- in your ~/.bashrc or ~/.zshrc

With cargo

You will need the rust toolchain and a linker (cc or mold).

cargo install up --git https://github.com/paul-ohl/up

Manual build

You will need the rust toolchain and a linker (cc or mold).

git clone https://github.com/paul-ohl/Up.git
cd Up/
cargo build --release

Then you can copy it to a folder in your $PATH to run it from anywhere.

sudo cp ./target/release/up /usr/bin/

# Or for user-level install
cp ./target/release/up ~/.local/bin/
# You may need to add this directory to your path
export PATH="$PATH:$HOME/.local/bin" # <-- in your ~/.bashrc or ~/.zshrc

Configuration

All you need to do is create a file in your XDG user directory.

The following tutorial is for linux, but works the exact same on MacOS, and you only need to adjust the directory for Windows.

mkdir ~/.config/up/
touch ~/.config/up/commands.toml

Then add commands to the commands.toml file. For example:

# In your commands.toml
system = "sudo dnf update -y"
flatpak = "flatpak update -y"
rustup = "rustup update"
snap = "sudo snap refresh"
lazyvim = "nvim --headless '+Lazy! sync' +qa"
npm = "sudo npm update -g"
pip = "pip install --upgrade pip"

Make sure your commands don't need any interaction to run (notice the -y).

Then once your commands are ready, just run up!