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Comma runs software without installing it. [maintainers=@Artturin,@burke,@DavHau]

9 mentions on Hacker News by 9 people: 0 stories, 9 comments · first 2022-03-10 · latest 2026-08-02

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  1. …useful with "comma" so Claude can directly use tools that are not installed yet or only one-off: https://github.com/nix-community/comma
    comment by sunaookami · 2026-08-02 · in Show HN: NixOS-DGX-Spark – Nix and NixOS on the DGX Spark
  2. https://github.com/nix-community/comma
    comment by rrvsh · 2026-06-30 · in NixOS 26.05
  3. …complex stuff now that would've been annoying, but not impossible, to write as a shell script. [1]: https://github.com/nix-community/comma/pull/19
    comment by rafram · 2026-02-07 · in Start all of your commands with a comma (2009)
  4. https://github.com/nix-community/comma
    comment by xyzzy_plugh · 2026-02-07 · in Start all of your commands with a comma (2009)
  5. If you think nix-shell is cool, try out comma. https://github.com/nix-community/comma When there's some random little utility I need I don't always bother to install it. It's just `, weirdlittleutil`.
    comment by Purplish9893 · 2025-06-25 · in Fun with uv and PEP 723
  6. Thought this was going to be about Comma [0] 0: https://github.com/nix-community/comma
    comment by tripdout · 2024-06-24 · in Start all of your commands with a comma (2009)
  7. Nice. There's also "comma" ( https://github.com/nix-community/comma ) that allows running any executable from nixpkgs by prepending ",".
    comment by lambdaba · 2024-02-07 · in Nix-shell shebang: run any script with arbitrary packages, self-contained
  8. …if there are multiple. Which package was drill in again? No matter, I'll just prefix a comma :) https://github.com/nix-community/comma
    comment by Valodim · 2023-03-02 · in Nix journey part 0: Learning and reference materials
  9. …`nix run` and `nix shell` help you become adventurous removing your fear of breaking things. https://github.com/nix-community/comma
    comment by yewenjie · 2022-03-10 · in Show HN: Dockerized – Run CLI tools without installation