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Document general scenario to use nightly builds in a step-by-step easy to script way

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#43,455 opened on Oct 15, 2020

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Are there a typical/recommended set of commands we can provide, for each relevant OS, that would let someone simply copy/paste each command into their shell? i.e. one to download the bits, one to extract them, one to set whatever environment variables need to be set, etc.? I'm thinking of something like the step-by-step copy/paste commands available for the official bits.

Originally posted by @stephentoub in https://github.com/dotnet/runtime/pull/43392#discussion_r504792946

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Find official nightly build download URLs and provide copy paste shell commands for Windows, macOS, and Linux to download, extract, and set environment variables.
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