bpkg is a bash package manager JavaScript has npm, Ruby has Gems, Python has pip and now Shell has bpkg! With bpkg you can easily install and manage Bash packages. It takes care of installing/uninstalling, execution permissions and everything so you can simply do the following: # Installs `term` on `/usr/local/bin` (https://github.com/bpkg/term) $ bpkg install term -g $ term Besides installing she