Pipx Activate BashRC

Bash Shell wrapper to activate pipx installed package virtual environment

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• ⬆️ Top of Document
• 🏗️ Requirements
• ⚡ Quick Start
• 🧰 Usage
• 🗒 Notes
• 📈 Contributing
  • 🔱 Forking
  • 💱 Sponsor
• 📇 Attribution
• ⚖️ Licensing
  • Commercial and/or proprietary use
  • Non-commercial and FOSS use

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Requirements

• Shell: Bash version 4.4 or greater

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Quick Start

Clone this project;

mkdir -vp ~/git/hub/python-utilities

cd ~/git/hub/python-utilities

git clone git@github.com:python-utilities/pipx-activate.bashrc.git

Add source line to your ~/.bashrc file;

source "${HOME}/git/hub/python-utilities/pipx-activate.bashrc/pipx-activate.bashrc"

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Usage

Use the exported pipx-activate function to activate virtual environments installed by pipx;

pipx-activate <package-name>

Note; if a given <package-name> is not found under PIPX_LOCAL_VENVS, then you may be prompted to install the given <package-name>

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Notes

This repository may not be feature complete and/or fully functional, Pull Requests that add features or fix bugs are certainly welcomed.

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Contributing

Options for contributing to pipx-activate.bashrc and python-utilities

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Forking

Start making a Fork of this repository to an account that you have write permissions for.

• Add remote for fork URL. The URL syntax is git@github.com:<NAME>/<REPO>.git...

cd ~/git/hub/python-utilities/pipx-activate.bashrc

git remote add fork git@github.com:<NAME>/pipx-activate.bashrc.git

• Commit your changes and push to your fork, eg. to fix an issue...

cd ~/git/hub/python-utilities/pipx-activate.bashrc


git commit -F- <<'EOF'
:bug: Fixes #42 Issue


**Edits**


- `<SCRIPT-NAME>` script, fixes some bug reported in issue
EOF


git push fork main

Note, the -u option may be used to set fork as the default remote, eg. git push -u fork main however, this will also default the fork remote for pulling from too! Meaning that pulling updates from origin must be done explicitly, eg. git pull origin main

• Then on GitHub submit a Pull Request through the Web-UI, the URL syntax is https://github.com/<NAME>/<REPO>/pull/new/<BRANCH>

Note; to decrease the chances of your Pull Request needing modifications before being accepted, please check the dot-github repository for detailed contributing guidelines.

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Sponsor

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Attribution

• GitHub -- github-utilities/make-readme
• Stack Overflow -- Bash set -x only for the duration of a function

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License

This project is licensed based on use-case

Commercial and/or proprietary use

If a project is either commercial or (||) proprietary, then please contact the author for pricing and licensing options to make use of code and/or features from this repository.

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Non-commercial and FOSS use

If a project is both non-commercial and (&&) published with a license compatible with AGPL-3.0, then it may utilize code from this repository under the following terms.

Bash Shell wrapper to activate `pipx` installed package virtual environment
Copyright (C) 2025 S0AndS0

This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
it under the terms of the GNU Affero General Public License as published
by the Free Software Foundation, version 3 of the License.

This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
GNU Affero General Public License for more details.

You should have received a copy of the GNU Affero General Public License
along with this program.  If not, see <https://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.

For further details review full length version of AGPL-3.0 License.