Install from a GitHub release

Dec 10, 2025

This is first entry in a series I'm calling "Fish of the Week", where I publish a nifty fish function I'm using in my local setup

Overview

Browse through GitHub releases using an interactive picker and choose a file to install into ~/.local/bin

Usage

ghinstall owner/repo

Dependencies

fzf
jq
GitHub cli

Download

ghinstall.fish

Install

curl -L https://tarq.net/posts/fow-gh-release-install/ghinstall.fish -o ~/.config/fish/functions/ghinstall.fish