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Cross-platform shell tools for Deno and Node.js inspired by zx.

6 mentions on Hacker News by 6 people: 0 stories, 6 comments · first 2024-01-21 · latest 2026-01-28

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  1. Zx is great. Really easy scripting! This article used Dax instead which also looks fine! Https://github.com/dsherret/dax
    comment by jauntywundrkind · 2026-01-28 · in Make.ts
  2. How about dax[^1] which is cross-platform and also works with Deno? [^1]: https://github.com/dsherret/dax
    comment by vwkd · 2024-07-17 · in Introduction to Bash Scripting
  3. Bun shell has less features than zx or dax https://github.com/dsherret/dax . I tried it out but had to change tooling.
    comment by drewbitt · 2024-04-27 · in Bun’s New Crash Reporter
  4. …great package for shell scripting with Deno is Dax, which is like the Deno version of Bun shell: https://github.com/dsherret/dax > Also project such as https://cliffy.io has made writing cli way more enjoyable than node. This looks cool.…
    comment by throwitaway1123 · 2024-04-02 · in Bun 1.1
  5. …, Bun Shell took inspiration from zx[0], dax[1] and bnx[2] [0]: https://github.com/google/zx [1]: https://github.com/dsherret/dax [2]: https://github.com/wobsoriano/bnx
    comment by nateb2022 · 2024-01-21 · in The Bun Shell
  6. For Deno there is https://github.com/dsherret/dax which is also zx inspired and has a cross platform shell built-in.
    comment by dsherret · 2024-01-21 · in The Bun Shell