# osxutils mit Homebrew, MacPorts, winget, apt, Nix installieren

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

## Installation

```sh
sudo av install brew:osxutils
```

Weitere Installationsbefehle:

### macOS

- Homebrew (100%):

```sh
brew install osxutils
```

  Evidenz: local Homebrew formula metadata

- MacPorts (94%):

```sh
sudo port install osxutils
```

  Evidenz: MacPorts ports tree: sysutils/osxutils/Portfile from https://api.github.com/repos/macports/macports-ports/git/trees/master?recursive=1

### Linux

- Debian apt (92%):

```sh
sudo apt install mkalias
```

  Evidenz: Debian stable package indexes: mkalias from https://deb.debian.org/debian/dists/stable/main/binary-amd64/Packages.xz

- Nix (92%):

```sh
nix profile install nixpkgs#mkalias
```

  Evidenz: nixpkgs package indexes: pkgs/by-name/mk/mkalias/package.nix from https://api.github.com/repos/NixOS/nixpkgs/git/trees/master?recursive=1

### Windows

- winget (92%):

```sh
winget install --id Google.JapaneseIME -e
```

  Evidenz: Windows Package Manager source index: Google.JapaneseIME from https://cdn.winget.microsoft.com/cache/source.msix

## Paketfakten

- **Paketschlüssel:** brew:osxutils
- **Paketmanager:** Homebrew
- **Paketmanager-Seite:** <https://formulae.brew.sh/formula/osxutils>
- **Version:** 1.9.0
- **Quellzusammenfassung:** Collection of macOS command-line utilities
- **Homepage:** <https://github.com/specious/osxutils>
- **Repository:** <https://github.com/specious/osxutils>
- **Lizenz:** GPL-2.0-or-later
- **Quellarchiv:** <https://github.com/specious/osxutils/archive/refs/tags/v1.9.0.tar.gz>
- **Generiert:** 2026-08-04T22:13:35+00:00

## Executables

- cpath (cli)
- finfo (cli)
- getfcomment (cli)
- geticon (cli)
- getvolume (cli)
- google (cli)
- hfsdata (cli)
- lsmac (cli)
- mkalias (cli)
- mvtrash (cli)
- osxutils (cli)
- rcmac (cli)
- setfcomment (cli)
- setfctypes (cli)
- setfflags (cli)
- seticon (cli)
- setlabel (cli)
- setsuffix (cli)
- setvolume (cli)
- wikipedia (cli)
- wsupdate (cli)
- cpath (Alias)
- finfo (Alias)
- getfcomment (Alias)
- geticon (Alias)
- getvolume (Alias)
- google (Alias)
- hfsdata (Alias)
- lsmac (Alias)
- mkalias (Alias)
- mvtrash (Alias)
- osxutils (Alias)
- rcmac (Alias)
- setfcomment (Alias)
- setfctypes (Alias)
- setfflags (Alias)
- seticon (Alias)
- setlabel (Alias)
- setsuffix (Alias)
- setvolume (Alias)
- wikipedia (Alias)
- wsupdate (Alias)

## Installationsverhalten

- Post-install-Hook: nicht definiert
- Bottle: verfügbar auf arm64_big_sur, 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: 1.9.0
- lokale Daten: OK
- Upstream-Repository: https://github.com/specious/osxutils
- neueste erkannte Version: v1.9.0 (aktuell)
- Info: No package-manager update timestamp was available.
## Projektgeschichte und Nutzung

osxutils is a collection of Mac OS X command-line utilities for Finder metadata, aliases, icons, labels, file type/creator codes, comments, HFS data, and other Mac-specific filesystem operations.

### Projektgeschichte

The maintained Homebrew upstream is `specious/osxutils`, whose README says it is based on the original osxutils project by Sveinbjorn Thordarson. GitHub records `specious/osxutils` as a fork created on 2015-04-08, with `vasi/osxutils` recorded as its parent and source repository created on 2012-12-13.

The package keeps alive a pre- and early-macOS style of command-line integration: utilities such as `getfcomment`, `setfcomment`, `geticon`, `seticon`, `mkalias`, `setlabel`, `setfflags`, and `lsmac` expose Finder/HFS metadata concepts that ordinary POSIX tools do not cover.

### Adoptionsgeschichte

Homebrew and MacPorts package osxutils as a macOS utility suite. The input metadata also records related package names in Debian, Ubuntu, and Nix for `mkalias`, although those entries may refer to separate packages with the same executable name rather than the full macOS suite.

### Wie es verwendet wird

Developers and power users reach for osxutils when shell scripts need to manipulate Mac-specific metadata rather than just file bytes and paths. The commands are useful for automation around Finder comments, custom icons, labels, volume names, aliases, and type/creator metadata.

### Warum Paket-Nerds sich dafür interessieren

osxutils is package-nerd interesting because it packages old Mac filesystem affordances as discrete Unix commands. It also illustrates how Homebrew often preserves small platform-native tools whose upstream history predates the dominant GitHub era.

### Zeitleiste

- 2012-12-13: GitHub records creation of `vasi/osxutils`, the parent/source repository for the maintained fork.
- 2015-04-08: GitHub records creation of `specious/osxutils`, the maintained fork used by Homebrew.
- 2026-03-17: GitHub records a push to `specious/osxutils`, showing the maintained fork had repository activity in 2026.

### Related projects

- The `tools-osx` README lists osxutils alongside osxiconutils and other Mac OS X command-line tools, reflecting the same ecosystem of shell access to Finder and filesystem features.

### Quellen

- <https://api.github.com/repos/specious/osxutils>
- <https://formulae.brew.sh/formula/osxutils>
- <https://github.com/specious/osxutils>
- <https://github.com/vasi/osxutils>
- <https://raw.githubusercontent.com/morgant/tools-osx/master/README.md>
- <https://raw.githubusercontent.com/specious/osxutils/master/README.md>


## Sicherheitshinweise

narrow executable package without higher-risk signals.

- **Geiger-Risiko:** grün / niedrig
- narrow executable package without higher-risk signals

## Details aus der Quelldatenbank

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

## Andere Paketmanager-Einträge

- MacPorts - osxutils: normalized package name match | MacPorts ports tree: sysutils/osxutils/Portfile from https://api.github.com/repos/macports/macports-ports/git/trees/master?recursive=1
- Debian apt - mkalias - 1.0.10-4: installed executable or alias match | Debian stable package indexes: mkalias from https://deb.debian.org/debian/dists/stable/main/binary-amd64/Packages.xz | Bash alias management to facilitate alias creation | https://github.com/LucianoPC/mkalias
- Nix - mkalias: installed executable or alias match | nixpkgs package indexes: pkgs/by-name/mk/mkalias/package.nix from https://api.github.com/repos/NixOS/nixpkgs/git/trees/master?recursive=1
- Ubuntu apt - mkalias - 1.0.10-4: installed executable or alias match | Ubuntu 24.04 LTS package indexes: mkalias from https://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/noble/universe/binary-amd64/Packages.gz | Bash alias management to facilitate alias creation | https://github.com/LucianoPC/mkalias
- winget - Google.JapaneseIME: installed executable or alias match | Windows Package Manager source index: Google.JapaneseIME from https://cdn.winget.microsoft.com/cache/source.msix


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- [fileicon](https://pkg.so/de/brew/fileicon/) - Shares pkgdb curated category or tags: cli, finder, macos, system.
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## Combined YAML source

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


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- curated package history
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