I have created a Docker image containing the set.mm repository and a number
of command line tools

   - metamath.exe <https://us.metamath.org/index.html#mmprog>
   - checkmm <https://us.metamath.org/other.html#checkmm>
   - metamath-knife <https://github.com/david-a-wheeler/metamath-knife>
   - mmj2 <https://github.com/digama0/mmj2>
   - mmverify.py <https://github.com/david-a-wheeler/mmverify.py>

Plus a few of my own (checkmm-ts, prettier-plugin-mm (beta), alt-mm (beta)).

If you have Docker installed, you can download and run it with the
following command

    docker run -it akb74/metamath-cmds

Which is good at the moment, but likely to date quickly (think how often
set.mm gets updated), and it seems like overkill at this stage to have it
updating automatically.  So in future it might make more sense to use the
git repository and follow the instructions there.

    https://github.com/Antony74/metamath-docker

I think this will probably be of some interest, and possibly convenience,
but even I would be hard pressed to say what value or utility it brings at
the moment.  Of the two fully featured programs there, only metamath.exe is
intended to be used from the command line.  I think you can get at most of
mmj2's functionality from the command line, but in a manner that's intended
for automation rather than command line use, and we can't start its
powerful graphical user interface from this Docker container.  The other
programs are validators, so the main use might be to compare them.  This is
not a good place to produce benchmarks however, due to the overhead of
running them inside a Docker container.  I will give some timings below,
however.

I'm not sure about this, but the Dockerfile arguably might represent formal
instructions for installing the command line tools that can quickly and
conveniently be verified as working (or broken).  (that sounds like a good
idea... where have I heard that before? ;-).  As such it might be worth
consulting if you get stuck installing a metamath program.

The first question I have to ask is: are there any important metamath
command line tools that I've missed? (I got the list from the Travis builds
on the set.mm repo).

My second question is: have I succeeded in obtaining all the command line
tools correctly from their official released sources?  In particular
metamath-knife, mmverify.py, and mmj2 are cloned from github.  Exactly
details of what I've used can be found in the Dockerfile
https://github.com/Antony74/metamath-docker/blob/main/Dockerfile

I think it's also worth noting that metamath.exe as obtained from
us.metamath.org/downloads does not appear to have been updated this year
(and as such still lists Norm's email address for tech support in a couple
of places).

Finally, here are the timing's I promised.  All the runs I've done have
been in the same ballpark, but if I wanted to be precise I suppose I should
have done this a number of times and taken averages.

I have a Windows 11 Asus laptop (Intel core i7 1.3GHz, 8GB RAM)
Natively it runs checkmm-ts on set.mm in 9.8s

0.7s - metamath-knife
7s - mmj2
8.4s - metamath.exe
11.2s - checkmm-ts
35.5s - checkmm
51.3s - mmverify.py

For work I have a MacOS Big Sur MacBook Pro (2.4 GHz 8-Core Intel Core i9,
32GB RAM)
Natively it runs checkmm-ts on set.mm in 9.6s

0.6s - metamath-knife
6.4s - mmj2
6.7s - metamath.exe
11.7s - checkmm-ts
32.2s - mmverify.py
33.1s - checkmm

    Best regards,

        Antony

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