# lesspipe mit Homebrew, MacPorts, Nix, pacman installieren Prüfe Installationswege, Executables, Metadaten und Sicherheitshinweise für lesspipe in AI-Agent-Workflows. ## Installation ```sh sudo av install brew:lesspipe ``` Weitere Installationsbefehle: ### macOS - Homebrew (100%): ```sh brew install lesspipe ``` Evidenz: local Homebrew formula metadata - MacPorts (94%): ```sh sudo port install lesspipe ``` Evidenz: MacPorts ports tree: textproc/lesspipe/Portfile from https://api.github.com/repos/macports/macports-ports/git/trees/master?recursive=1 ### Linux - Nix (92%): ```sh nix profile install nixpkgs#lesspipe ``` Evidenz: nixpkgs package indexes: pkgs/by-name/le/lesspipe/package.nix from https://api.github.com/repos/NixOS/nixpkgs/git/trees/master?recursive=1 - pacman (92%): ```sh sudo pacman -S lesspipe ``` Evidenz: Arch Linux sync databases: lesspipe from https://geo.mirror.pkgbuild.com/extra/os/x86_64/extra.db.tar.gz ## Paketfakten - **Paketschlüssel:** brew:lesspipe - **Paketmanager:** Homebrew - **Paketmanager-Seite:** - **Version:** 2.27 - **Quellzusammenfassung:** Input filter for the pager less - **Homepage:** - **Repository:** - **Upstream-Dokumentation:** - **Lizenz:** GPL-2.0-only AND GPL-2.0-or-later AND MIT AND (Artistic-1.0-Perl OR GPL-1.0-or-later) - **Quellarchiv:** - **Zuletzt aktualisiert:** 2026-06-17T09:20:36+09:00 - **Generiert:** 2026-08-04T22:13:35+00:00 ## Executables - archive_color (cli) - lesspipe.sh (cli) - archive_color (Alias) - lesspipe.sh (Alias) ## Abhängigkeiten - bash ## Von macOS bereitgestellte Bibliotheken - perl ## Installationsverhalten - Post-install-Hook: nicht definiert - Einschränkungen: add the following to your shell profile e.g. ~/.profile or ~/.zshrc: export LESSOPEN="|$HOMEBREW_PREFIX/bin/lesspipe.sh %s" - Bottle: verfügbar auf all ## Version und Aktualität - Seite generiert: 2026-08-04 - Manager-Version: 2.27 - Manager aktualisiert: 2026-06-17 - lokale Daten: OK - Upstream-Repository: https://github.com/wofr06/lesspipe - neueste erkannte Version: v2.27 (aktuell) ## Projektgeschichte und Nutzung lesspipe is a long-running input filter for the `less` pager. It sits in a classic Unix niche: let the pager stay simple, but teach it to render compressed files, archives, documents, media metadata, and nested archive structures through an external preprocessor. ### Projektgeschichte The project is maintained by Wolfgang Friebel and distributed from the lesspipe web site and the `wofr06/lesspipe` GitHub repository. The maintainer's project page lists early coverage in Linux Magazin 01/2001, CERN Computing Newsletter 01/2002, and Linux User 04/2002, showing that the script was already established in Unix/Linux user circles by the early 2000s. The changelog shows continuous modernization rather than a frozen shell-script utility: later releases added support for newer archive and document formats, optional syntax colorizers, tab-completion improvements, security fixes, and a 2025 note for a '25 years recursive lesspipe' article. ### Adoptionsgeschichte lesspipe's adoption follows the shape of pager culture: users opt into it through `LESSOPEN`, distributions package it as a small helper, and package managers expose it as a lightweight add-on for people who live in terminals. Homebrew, MacPorts, Nix, and Arch package metadata in this batch all list a `lesspipe` package. ### Wie es verwendet wird The common usage is not to run lesspipe as a destination program, but to configure `less` so the filter is called automatically. Once installed, it makes `less archive.tar.gz`, `less file.pdf`, or nested archive inspection behave like ordinary paging instead of a manual extract-convert-open workflow. ### Warum Paket-Nerds sich dafür interessieren Package nerds care about lesspipe because it is a compact example of Unix composition aging well: one pager, one environment hook, and a shell-script filter that tracks the moving target of real-world file formats. It also explains why many Linux users expect `less` to be smarter than upstream `less` alone. ### Zeitleiste - 2001: Linux Magazin 01/2001 coverage listed on the maintainer's lesspipe page. - 2002: CERN Computing Newsletter 01/2002 and Linux User 04/2002 coverage listed on the maintainer's lesspipe page. - 2015: The GitHub repository `wofr06/lesspipe` was created on July 20, 2015. - 2025: Version 2.18 noted a '25 years recursive lesspipe' article in the lesspipe.sh wiki. - 2026: Version 2.27 was recorded in the changelog on June 10, 2026. ### Related projects - lesspipe is tightly coupled to `less` and its `LESSOPEN` input-preprocessor mechanism. It also overlaps with tools it delegates to or competes with for specific formats, including archive utilities, document converters, `file`/magic databases, `bat`, Vim/Neovim-based colorizers, and media metadata tools. ### Quellen - - - - - ## Sicherheitshinweise broad file, network, media, or database tool signal. - **Geiger-Risiko:** blue / mittel - broad file, network, media, or database tool signal ## Details aus der Quelldatenbank - **Source Database:** Homebrew formula API - **Tap:** homebrew/core - **Full Name:** lesspipe - **Version Scheme:** 0 - **Revision:** 0 - **Bottle Stable Root URL:** - **Deprecated:** no - **Disabled:** no - **Keg Only:** no - **URL Keys:** stable ## Andere Paketmanager-Einträge - Nix - lesspipe: normalized package name match | nixpkgs package indexes: pkgs/by-name/le/lesspipe/package.nix from https://api.github.com/repos/NixOS/nixpkgs/git/trees/master?recursive=1 - pacman - lesspipe - 2.27-1: normalized package name match | Arch Linux sync databases: lesspipe from https://geo.mirror.pkgbuild.com/extra/os/x86_64/extra.db.tar.gz | an input filter for the pager less | https://www-zeuthen.desy.de/~friebel/unix/lesspipe.html - MacPorts - lesspipe: normalized package name match | MacPorts ports tree: textproc/lesspipe/Portfile from https://api.github.com/repos/macports/macports-ports/git/trees/master?recursive=1 ## Verwandte Links - [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. - [Networking and protocol packages](https://pkg.so/de/networking-protocol-tools/) - Matched network, protocol, or remote-service metadata. - [Homebrew utility packages](https://pkg.so/de/brew-utility-packages/) - Matched Homebrew package provider. - [bash](https://pkg.so/de/brew/bash/) - Runtime dependency declared by Homebrew. - [pv](https://pkg.so/de/brew/pv/) - Shares pkgdb curated category or tags: cli, system, terminal. - [less](https://pkg.so/de/brew/less/) - Shares pkgdb curated category or tags: cli, system, terminal. - [screen](https://pkg.so/de/brew/screen/) - Shares pkgdb curated category or tags: cli, system, terminal. - [ranger](https://pkg.so/de/brew/ranger/) - Shares pkgdb curated category or tags: cli, system, terminal. - [picocom](https://pkg.so/de/brew/picocom/) - Shares pkgdb curated category or tags: cli, system, terminal. - [ov](https://pkg.so/de/brew/ov/) - Shares pkgdb curated category or tags: cli, system, terminal. - [dtach](https://pkg.so/de/brew/dtach/) - Shares pkgdb curated category or tags: cli, system, terminal. - [colortail](https://pkg.so/de/brew/colortail/) - Shares pkgdb curated category or tags: cli, system, terminal. ## Combined YAML source View the package source record on GitHub. [combined/lesspipe.yml](https://github.com/mxcl/pkgdb/blob/main/combined/lesspipe.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 - external package-manager database matches - cross-ecosystem install command graph