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Downloads:

526

Downloads of v 0.5.0:

205

Last Update:

21 Oct 2021

Package Maintainer(s):

Software Author(s):

  • Andreas Fuchs

Tags:

rust cli

cha(rs)

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0.5.0 | Updated: 21 Oct 2021

Downloads:

526

Downloads of v 0.5.0:

205

Maintainer(s):

Software Author(s):

  • Andreas Fuchs

Tags:

rust cli

cha(rs) 0.5.0

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At least one file within this package has greater than 0 detections, but less than 5

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Deployment Method: Individual Install, Upgrade, & Uninstall

To install cha(rs), run the following command from the command line or from PowerShell:

>

To upgrade cha(rs), run the following command from the command line or from PowerShell:

>

To uninstall cha(rs), run the following command from the command line or from PowerShell:

>

Deployment Method:

NOTE

This applies to both open source and commercial editions of Chocolatey.

1. Enter Your Internal Repository Url

(this should look similar to https://community.chocolatey.org/api/v2/)


2. Setup Your Environment

1. Ensure you are set for organizational deployment

Please see the organizational deployment guide

2. Get the package into your environment

  • Open Source or Commercial:
    • Proxy Repository - Create a proxy nuget repository on Nexus, Artifactory Pro, or a proxy Chocolatey repository on ProGet. Point your upstream to https://community.chocolatey.org/api/v2/. Packages cache on first access automatically. Make sure your choco clients are using your proxy repository as a source and NOT the default community repository. See source command for more information.
    • You can also just download the package and push it to a repository Download

3. Copy Your Script

choco upgrade chars -y --source="'INTERNAL REPO URL'" [other options]

See options you can pass to upgrade.

See best practices for scripting.

Add this to a PowerShell script or use a Batch script with tools and in places where you are calling directly to Chocolatey. If you are integrating, keep in mind enhanced exit codes.

If you do use a PowerShell script, use the following to ensure bad exit codes are shown as failures:


choco upgrade chars -y --source="'INTERNAL REPO URL'" 
$exitCode = $LASTEXITCODE

Write-Verbose "Exit code was $exitCode"
$validExitCodes = @(0, 1605, 1614, 1641, 3010)
if ($validExitCodes -contains $exitCode) {
  Exit 0
}

Exit $exitCode

- name: Install chars
  win_chocolatey:
    name: chars
    version: '0.5.0'
    source: INTERNAL REPO URL
    state: present

See docs at https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/latest/modules/win_chocolatey_module.html.


chocolatey_package 'chars' do
  action    :install
  source   'INTERNAL REPO URL'
  version  '0.5.0'
end

See docs at https://docs.chef.io/resource_chocolatey_package.html.


cChocoPackageInstaller chars
{
    Name     = "chars"
    Version  = "0.5.0"
    Source   = "INTERNAL REPO URL"
}

Requires cChoco DSC Resource. See docs at https://github.com/chocolatey/cChoco.


package { 'chars':
  ensure   => '0.5.0',
  provider => 'chocolatey',
  source   => 'INTERNAL REPO URL',
}

Requires Puppet Chocolatey Provider module. See docs at https://forge.puppet.com/puppetlabs/chocolatey.


4. If applicable - Chocolatey configuration/installation

See infrastructure management matrix for Chocolatey configuration elements and examples.

Package Approved

This package was approved by moderator Windos on 02 Nov 2021.

Description

cha(rs) is a commandline tool to display information about unicode characters


chars.exe
md5: 93931AACE51F9A82BC4E89553153E49F | sha1: E55C476D759F0A4A0EE4F4BF823461CAD55A6F97 | sha256: ACFE1314136E947319FAB457DB58AB919C69882E472A0921D92F6A7C7FFE0641 | sha512: 31765FF914FC688C2E9CB7C85572E8A028C3EF24092CB175372BADA8D6C49DB637F660FF4A4D9DA66A9997B0F7E7421BD40D67D25B283134EBD0DF509B4303B0
LICENSE.txt
Copyright (c) 2016 Andreas Fuchs <[email protected]>

Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions:

The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in all copies or substantial portions of the Software.

THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHORS OR COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM, OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN THE SOFTWARE.
VERIFICATION.txt
VERIFICATION
Verification is intended to assist the Chocolatey moderators and community
in verifying that this package's contents are trustworthy.

---

Since the chars author does not publish binaries, this Chocolatey package is built to have reproducible builds.

LICENSE.txt is taken directly from <https://github.com/antifuchs/chars/blob/v0.5.0/LICENSE>.
It had sha256 B8877D54A3D562F22B4EF3185FEAA1472545C3FEE5855AB1ACE066FC1752F074 when pulled.

To reproduce the chars.exe executable, install the MSVC Build Tools, the MSVC Rust compiler,
and the [ducible](https://github.com/jasonwhite/ducible) CLI tool.
chars.exe had sha256 ACFE1314136E947319FAB457DB58AB919C69882E472A0921D92F6A7C7FFE0641 after built.

The MSVC build tools, and the Rust compiler, can both be installed directly using Chocolatey:

    PS> choco install rust-ms --version 1.56.0
    PS> choco install visualcpp-build-tools --version 15.0.26228.20170424

To make sure that I'm actually running the correct build tools, this works:

    PS> link.exe /version
    Microsoft (R) Incremental Linker Version 14.16.27045.0
    Copyright (C) Microsoft Corporation.  All rights reserved.

    LINK : fatal error LNK1146: no argument specified with option '/version'

Ducible is available as a Chocolatey package.

    PS> choco install ducible --version 1.2.2

Then, after installing the toolchain, download the correct git tag version for this system, build it in release mode, and run ducible on it:

    PS> git clone --branch=v0.5.0 https://github.com/antifuchs/chars
    PS> cd chars
    PS> cargo build --release
    PS> ducible target\release\chars.exe
    PS> cp target\release\chars.exe ..
    PS> cp LICENSE ..\LICENSE.txt

You can now verify that your hashes match mine using PowerShell's Get-FileHash applet.

    PS> $LicenseSha256 = (Get-FileHash -Path ..\LICENSE.txt -Algorithm sha256).Hash
    PS> $LicenseSha256 -Eq "B8877D54A3D562F22B4EF3185FEAA1472545C3FEE5855AB1ACE066FC1752F074"
    True
    PS> $ExeSha256 = (Get-FileHash -Path ..\chars.exe -Algorithm sha256).Hash
    PS> $ExeSha256 -Eq "ACFE1314136E947319FAB457DB58AB919C69882E472A0921D92F6A7C7FFE0641"
    True

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In cases where actual malware is found, the packages are subject to removal. Software sometimes has false positives. Moderators do not necessarily validate the safety of the underlying software, only that a package retrieves software from the official distribution point and/or validate embedded software against official distribution point (where distribution rights allow redistribution).

Chocolatey Pro provides runtime protection from possible malware.

Add to Builder Version Downloads Last Updated Status
cha(rs) 0.4.1 321 Thursday, December 19, 2019 Approved

This package has no dependencies.

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