# Install dotslash

Command-line tool to facilitate fetching an executable, caching it, and then running it. Version 0.5.7 via Cargo; verified 2025-07-09.

## Install

```sh
sudo av install cargo:dotslash
```

Additional install commands:

### Portable and language managers

- Cargo (100%):

```sh
cargo install dotslash
```

  Evidence: local crates.io package metadata

## Package Facts

- **Package key:** cargo:dotslash
- **Package manager:** Cargo
- **Package manager URL:** <https://crates.io/crates/dotslash>
- **Version:** 0.5.7
- **Source summary:** Command-line tool to facilitate fetching an executable, caching it, and then running it.
- **Homepage:** <https://dotslash-cli.com>
- **Repository:** <https://github.com/facebook/dotslash>
- **License:** MIT OR Apache-2.0
- **Source archive:** <https://static.crates.io/crates/dotslash/dotslash-0.5.7.crate>
- **Published:** 2025-07-09 21:02:15.490754+00
- **Last updated:** 2025-07-09 21:02:15.490754+00
- **Generated:** 2026-06-18T16:49:02+00:00

## Executables

- dotslash (binary): Declared by crates.io version metadata.

## Install Behavior

- Bottle: not available

## Freshness

- Page generated: 2026-06-18
- Package-manager version: 0.5.7

## Security Notes

No matching local secret-handling manifest was found for dotslash. Nucleus package metadata is still published here so future coverage has a stable package URL.


## Source Database Details

- **Source Database:** crates.io database dump
- **Crate ID:** 462,392
- **Crate Size:** 61,049
- **Edition:** 2024
- **Has Lib:** no
- **Num Versions:** 11
- **Recent Download Window Days:** 90
- **Rust Version:** 1.85
- **Version ID:** 1,634,949

## Other Package-Manager Records

- Nix - dotslash: normalized package name match | nixpkgs package indexes: pkgs/by-name/do/dotslash/package.nix from https://api.github.com/repos/NixOS/nixpkgs/git/trees/master?recursive=1
- pacman - dotslash - 0.5.8-1: normalized package name match | Arch Linux sync databases: dotslash from https://geo.mirror.pkgbuild.com/extra/os/x86_64/extra.db.tar.gz | Command-line tool to facilitate fetching an executable, caching it, and then running it | https://github.com/facebook/dotslash
- Scoop - main/dotslash: normalized package name match | Scoop official bucket manifest trees: bucket/dotslash.json from https://api.github.com/repos/ScoopInstaller/Main/git/trees/master?recursive=1


## Related Links

- [dotslash](https://www.automicvault.com/pkg/brew/dotslash/) - Same normalized package name exists in another local package ecosystem.

## Sources

- crates.io package index
- external package-manager database matches
- cross-ecosystem install command graph