DotnetToolsCli

Providing a dotnet cli tool to manage dotnet global tools

In this repo, i m building a cli tool that allows to manage dotnet global tools.

The tool is based on multiple sub commands :

• Use sub command List to list installed global tools
• Use sub command Search to search global tools published on nuget
• Use sub command Update to update installed global tools
• Use sub command Install to install global tools
• Use sub command Uninstall to uninstall global tools

To run the tool, type commands :

• dotnet-tools -h to show help
• dotnet-tools -s to show settings
• dotnet-tools List to list installed global tools
• dotnet-tools List -p [pattern] to list installed global tools matching pattern
• dotnet-tools Search to search public global tools
• dotnet-tools Search -p [pattern] to search public global tools matching pattern
• dotnet-tools Update to update installed global tools
• dotnet-tools Update -p [pattern] to update installed global tools matching pattern
• dotnet-tools Install [id] to install global tools
• dotnet-tools Install [id] --force to force install global tools
• dotnet-tools Install [id] --version [version] to install global tools with some version
• dotnet-tools Uninstall [id] to uninstall global tools

To install cli tool from a local source path, type commands :

• dotnet tool install -g --configfile .\Nugets\local.config DotnetToolsCli --version "*-*" --ignore-failed-sources

To install cli tool from nuget source, type this command :

• For stable version : dotnet tool install -g DotnetToolsCli --ignore-failed-sources
• For prerelease version : dotnet tool install -g DotnetToolsCli --version "*-*" --ignore-failed-sources

To uninstall cli tool, type this command :

• dotnet tool uninstall -g DotnetToolsCli

Tools : net 9.0, command-line, spectre-console