# Install evnx with Homebrew, winget

Comprehensive CLI tool for managing .env files. Version 0.10.12 via Homebrew; verified 2026-10-21. Also installable with winget: winget install --id urwithajit9.evnx -e.

## Install

```sh
sudo av install brew:evnx
```

Additional install commands:

### macOS

- Homebrew (100%):

```sh
brew install evnx
```

  Evidence: local Homebrew formula metadata

### Windows

- winget (92%):

```sh
winget install --id urwithajit9.evnx -e
```

  Evidence: Windows Package Manager source index: urwithajit9.evnx from https://cdn.winget.microsoft.com/cache/source.msix

## Package facts

- **Package key:** brew:evnx
- **Package manager:** Homebrew
- **Package manager page:** <https://formulae.brew.sh/formula/evnx>
- **Version:** 0.10.12
- **Source summary:** Comprehensive CLI tool for managing .env files
- **Homepage:** <https://evnx.dev>
- **Repository:** <https://github.com/urwithajit9/evnx>
- **Upstream docs:** <https://evnx.dev>
- **License:** MIT
- **Source archive:** <https://github.com/urwithajit9/evnx/archive/refs/tags/v0.10.14.tar.gz>
- **Last updated:** 2026-10-21T17:06:14Z
- **Generated:** 2026-10-22T12:10:21+00:00

## Executables

- evnx (cli)
- evnx (alias)

## Build dependencies

- rust

## Install behavior

- Post-install hook: not defined
- Bottle: available on arm64_golden_gate, arm64_linux, arm64_sequoia, arm64_tahoe, x86_64_linux

## Freshness

- Page generated: 2026-10-22
- Package-manager version: 0.10.12
- Package-manager updated: 2026-10-21
- Local data: ok
- Upstream repository: https://github.com/urwithajit9/evnx
- Upstream latest detected: v0.10.14 (current)
## Project history and usage

evnx is a cross-platform Rust command-line tool for creating, validating, synchronizing, scanning, converting, and securing `.env` files.

### Project history

The author describes evnx as growing from an accidental `.env` exposure and the need for preventive tooling. The project developed into a Rust CLI covering the environment-file lifecycle, including initialization, validation, synchronization, scanning, conversion, diagnostics, and experimental cloud migration.

### Adoption history

The official site documents distribution as a static cross-platform binary and through Cargo and Homebrew. Its integrations target local development, pre-commit hooks, GitHub Actions, Docker, and CI security scanning.

### How it is used

Typical workflows start with `evnx init`, which creates project-local `.env.example` and `.env` files and updates `.gitignore`. Users can then run `evnx doctor`, `evnx validate`, or `evnx scan` locally or in CI.

The tool also synchronizes `.env` with `.env.example`, converts variables to deployment formats such as Kubernetes or Terraform, manages values without manual editing, and can migrate secrets to supported services.

### Why package nerds care

evnx combines several frequently separate package categories—dotenv editing, schema validation, secret scanning, format conversion, encrypted backup, and secret-manager migration—inside one Rust CLI.

It is particularly relevant to package-oriented development workflows because it offers a dependency-light executable, machine-readable output, CI exit codes, and SARIF reporting.

### Timeline

- 2024: The incident described by the author became the motivation for preventive `.env` tooling.
- The project expanded from environment-file management into secret scanning, CI integration, format conversion, encrypted backup, and cloud migration.
- 2026: The official site documented the 0.3.x series as a cross-platform Rust CLI.

### Related projects

- The official project material identifies companion repositories for evnx testing, a GitHub Action, Homebrew packaging, and Scoop packaging.

### Sources

- <https://github.com/urwithajit9/evnx>
- <https://www.evnx.dev/>
- <https://www.evnx.dev/blog/why-i-built-evnx>
- <https://www.evnx.dev/guides/commands/init>


## Security Notes

No matching local secret-handling manifest was found for evnx. Package metadata is still published here so future coverage has a stable package URL.



## Configuration and credential file locations

These source-backed paths show where this package keeps local settings or durable credentials. Automic Vault can use them as review targets for secret scanning, migration, and command approval.


## Configuration files

- Unix: ./.evnx.toml
- Windows: .\.evnx.toml

## Credential files

- Unix: ./.env
- Windows: .\.env
## Source Database Details

- **Source Database:** Homebrew formula API
- **Tap:** homebrew/core
- **Full Name:** evnx
- **Version Scheme:** 0
- **Revision:** 0
- **Bottle Stable Root URL:** <https://ghcr.io/v2/homebrew/core>
- **Deprecated:** no
- **Disabled:** no
- **Keg Only:** no
- **URL Keys:** stable

## Other Package-Manager Records

- winget - urwithajit9.evnx: normalized package name match | Windows Package Manager source index: urwithajit9.evnx from https://cdn.winget.microsoft.com/cache/source.msix


## Related links

- [Terminal utility packages](https://pkg.so/terminal-utilities/) - Matched terminal and command-line workflow metadata.
- [Networking and protocol packages](https://pkg.so/networking-protocol-tools/) - Matched network, protocol, or remote-service metadata.
- [Homebrew utility packages](https://pkg.so/brew-utility-packages/) - Matched curated package taxonomy and local package facts.

## Combined YAML source

View the package source record on GitHub. [combined/evnx.yml](https://github.com/mxcl/pkgdb/blob/main/combined/evnx.yml)


## Sources

- pkg.so package database
- package-page enrichment
- curated configuration and credential file locations
- curated package history
- package version freshness
- package relationship graph
- external package-manager database matches
- cross-ecosystem install command graph