brandedoutcast / dotnet-grab

.NET core global tool to download nuget packages in to a directory without any project

✨ grab [dotnet-grab]

.NET core global tool to download nuget packages in to a directory without any project

Why

Useful to manage dependencies for C# / F# script files that can be executed via REPL

Install

The dotnet-grab nuget package is published to nuget.org

You can get the tool by running this command

$ dotnet tool install -g dotnet-grab

Usage

Usage: grab [packages...]

packages:
    list of packages names (@ optional versions) to download

Ex:
    grab newtonsoft.json newtonsoft.json@6.0.7 entityframework@6.2.0

    newtonsoft.json @ 12.0.3 - downloaded
    newtonsoft.json @ 6.0.7 - downloaded
    entityframework @ 6.2.0 - downloaded

packages are saved under 'packages' in current directory