# envv mit Homebrew installieren

Prüfe Installationswege, Executables, Metadaten und Sicherheitshinweise für envv in AI-Agent-Workflows.

## Installation

```sh
sudo av install brew:envv
```

Weitere Installationsbefehle:

### macOS

- Homebrew (100%):

```sh
brew install envv
```

  Evidenz: local Homebrew formula metadata

## Paketfakten

- **Paketschlüssel:** brew:envv
- **Paketmanager:** Homebrew
- **Paketmanager-Seite:** <https://formulae.brew.sh/formula/envv>
- **Version:** 1.7
- **Quellzusammenfassung:** Shell-independent handling of environment variables
- **Homepage:** <https://github.com/jakewendt/envv>
- **Repository:** <https://github.com/jakewendt/envv>
- **Lizenz:** MIT
- **Quellarchiv:** <https://github.com/jakewendt/envv/archive/refs/tags/v1.7.tar.gz>
- **Zuletzt aktualisiert:** 2026-07-10T19:51:01-04:00
- **Generiert:** 2026-08-04T22:13:35+00:00

## Executables

- envv (cli)
- envv (Alias)

## Installationsverhalten

- Post-install-Hook: nicht definiert
- Bottle: verfügbar auf arm64_big_sur, arm64_linux, arm64_monterey, arm64_sequoia, arm64_sonoma, arm64_tahoe, arm64_ventura, big_sur, catalina, monterey, sonoma, ventura

## Version und Aktualität

- Seite generiert: 2026-08-04
- Manager-Version: 1.7
- Manager aktualisiert: 2026-07-10
- lokale Daten: OK
- Upstream-Repository: https://github.com/jakewendt/envv
- neueste erkannte Version: v1.7 (aktuell)
## Projektgeschichte und Nutzung

envv is a small C utility for generating shell-specific commands that set environment variables and edit colon-separated paths. Its niche is old-school Unix software setup: one script can be sourced by users of csh, tcsh, bash, sh, ksh, and zsh without hard-coding separate initialization logic for each shell.

### Projektgeschichte

The README traces envv back to David F. Skoll of Roaring Penguin Software, with version 1.0 dated February 8, 1994. Early releases added zsh recognition, a `choose` directive, local variables, stdin directives, and fixes around path comparison and environment persistence.

The GitHub-hosted copy records a later 2011 license change to MIT and a segmentation fault fix, but otherwise presents envv as a deliberately small utility: build with `make`, copy the `envv` executable into a system directory, and consult the bundled `envv.1` manual page.

### Adoptionsgeschichte

envv never became a broad ecosystem package, but its continued packaging in Homebrew keeps a 1990s Unix environment-management tool installable on modern developer machines. The README's example is aimed at commercial or site-local software that needs PATH entries and home variables set consistently for many user shells.

### Wie es verwendet wird

A typical envv setup script evaluates commands such as `envv add PATH /usr/local/foobar/bin` and `envv set FOOHOME /usr/local/foobar`. Users source that script from their preferred shell, allowing system-wide software moves without each user editing `.cshrc`, `.profile`, or similar files by hand.

### Warum Paket-Nerds sich dafür interessieren

envv is interesting as a compact survivor from the era when Unix shops had to support several interactive shells at once. For package-manager history, it is a reminder that environment setup before modules, direnv, and modern shell frameworks often meant tiny C tools that printed shell code.

### Zeitleiste

- 1994-02-08: Version 1.0 first released.
- 1994-03-22: Version 1.1 added zsh recognition and the `choose` directive.
- 1994-04-18: Version 1.2 added local variables, command-line options, and stdin directives.
- 1995-07-11: Version 1.6 fixed path comparison behavior.
- 2011-07-14: Version 1.7 changed the license to MIT and fixed a segmentation fault.

### Related projects

- envv overlaps conceptually with shell profile snippets, environment modules, and later per-directory environment tools, but it solves a narrower problem by emitting commands for multiple shells.

### Quellen

- <https://github.com/jakewendt/envv>
- <https://raw.githubusercontent.com/jakewendt/envv/master/README>


## Sicherheitshinweise

generalized runtime or code generation signal.

- **Geiger-Risiko:** yellow / mittel
- generalized runtime or code generation signal

## Details aus der Quelldatenbank

- **Source Database:** Homebrew formula API
- **Tap:** homebrew/core
- **Full Name:** envv
- **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


## Verwandte Links

- [Source-control packages](https://pkg.so/de/source-control-tools/) - Belongs to a source-control command family.
- [Secret-risk packages](https://pkg.so/de/secret-risk-packages/) - Has protected-tool coverage, approval-gate, or non-low Geiger security signals.
- [Terminal utility packages](https://pkg.so/de/terminal-utilities/) - Matched terminal and command-line workflow metadata.
- [Text processing packages](https://pkg.so/de/text-processing-tools/) - Matched text, document, or structured-data processing metadata.
- [dynaconf](https://pkg.so/de/brew/dynaconf/) - Shares pkgdb curated category or tags: cli, configuration, developer-tools, environment-variables.
- [butane](https://pkg.so/de/brew/butane/) - Shares pkgdb curated category or tags: cli, configuration, developer-tools.
- [editorconfig](https://pkg.so/de/brew/editorconfig/) - Shares pkgdb curated category or tags: cli, configuration, developer-tools.
- [config-file-validator](https://pkg.so/de/brew/config-file-validator/) - Shares pkgdb curated category or tags: cli, configuration, developer-tools.
- [dhall-json](https://pkg.so/de/brew/dhall-json/) - Shares pkgdb curated category or tags: cli, configuration, developer-tools.
- [json2hcl](https://pkg.so/de/brew/json2hcl/) - Shares pkgdb curated category or tags: cli, configuration, developer-tools.
- [libucl](https://pkg.so/de/brew/libucl/) - Shares pkgdb curated category or tags: cli, configuration, developer-tools.
- [dhall-bash](https://pkg.so/de/brew/dhall-bash/) - Shares pkgdb curated category or tags: cli, configuration, developer-tools.
- [envelope](https://pkg.so/de/brew/envelope/) - Local package facts share a topical domain. Shared terms: cli, configuration, developer, developer-tools, environment.

## Combined YAML source

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


## Quellen

- pkg.so package database
- Geiger risk classifier
- package-page enrichment
- curated package history
- package version freshness
- pkgdb category and tag curation
- package relationship graph
- cross-ecosystem install command graph
