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Shellcode Mechanics and User Manual

pkgx Shellcode
The pkgx shellcode is not integrated by default, first study the shellcode by dumping to your terminal:
pkgx --shellcode
As you can see the shellcode is a handful of shell functions to achieve the following:
a handler for env +pkg
our handler uses pkgx primitives to install and inject the requested pkgs into the shell session
a command not found handler
to suggest x invocations for commands we support
Some _ support prefixed functions for the above
We add ~/.local/bin to your PATH
we configure packages that install things themselves to install things there
a change directory hook so dev environments can be activated and deactivated automatically when you change directories
Integrating the Shellcode
First dry run the integration:
pkgx integrate --dry-run
Then integrate:
eval "$(pkgx integrate)"
Deintegrating the Shellcode
If at any point you want to deintegrate the pkgx shellcode type:
pkgx deintegrate
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