antibody

antibody command [options]

antibody is a fast shell plugin manager written in Go. It downloads and loads Zsh plugins from GitHub or other sources, similar to Antigen but with faster performance.Plugins are specified in a text file with one repository per line. Antibody bundles them into shell code that can be sourced in your .zshrc.

antibody is deprecated. No new features or bugfixes are being added. The maintainer recommends antidote as a drop-in replacement.

bundle [plugin]

Download and print source commands for plugins

Update all installed plugins

List installed plugins

Output initialization code

Remove a plugin

Print antibody home directory

Typical setup in .zshrc:

$ source <(antibody init)
antibody bundle < ~/.zsh_plugins.txt

$ antibody bundle < ~/.zsh_plugins.txt > ~/.zsh_plugins.sh
source ~/.zsh_plugins.sh

Plugin updates require running antibody update; they don't auto-update. Static loading (generated file) is faster but requires regeneration after changes.

antibody was created by Carlos Alexandro Becker as a faster alternative to Antigen, the popular Zsh plugin manager, using Go for improved performance. The project has since been deprecated and superseded by antidote, a Zsh reimplementation by mattmc3.

zsh(1), antigen(1), zinit(1)

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