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modman

See: https://github.com/colinmollenhour/modman

Install on OS X

# Change to your $PATH
cd /usr/local/bin

# Create a modman file (as super user)
sudo touch modman

# Edit the modman file (as super user)
sudo nano modman

Paste in the contents of: https://github.com/colinmollenhour/modman/blob/master/modman

# Make the modman file executable (as super user)
sudo chmod 755 modman

Open a new terminal session and test that modman is working:

modman --help
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