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Dev tools · September 14, 2013

Intelligently search packages from your shell

Command line package search. Contribute to ColemanGariety/glom development by creating an account on GitHub.

Intelligently search packages from your shell launched on September 14, 2013 with 15 votes, #62 of 422 launches that month and more than 75% of that year's launches. The site was still online in September 2026, 13 years on.

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Glom is a command-line tool for searching packages directly from the shell. Designed for developers, it provides a way to query package information without leaving the terminal. The project is open source and hosted on GitHub, where users can contribute to its development.

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