[pyre]

In a more controlled environment where you are writing shell scripts all of the time, it seems like this could be something useful. For example, you could distribute it with your "dotfiles" to use in your .bashrc / .zshrc files. Or you could make sure it's installed on all of your Linux/*BSD servers.

It's obviously not so great for distributing around to random places where it probably won't be installed.

Edit: Right in the README is this:

> fatten[1], to make standalone shell scripts

[1] https://github.com/shellfire-dev/fatten

[raphcohn]

Yep, that's exactly why fatten exists. There's also swaddle[1], which complements fatten to make apt and yum repos with deb packages and rpms.

[1] https://github.com/raphaelcohn/swaddle