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brew install asciiprovider-native install command
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ascii mit Homebrew installieren
Prüfe Installationswege, Executables, Metadaten und Sicherheitshinweise für ascii in AI-Agent-Workflows.
Installation
Weitere Installationsbefehle
Überblick
Paketzusammenfassung
List ASCII idiomatic names and octal/decimal code-point forms
Projektlinks
Befehle und Aliase
- ascii
Verlauf
Projektgeschichte und Nutzung
ascii is Eric S. Raymond's compact Unix reference utility for translating among ASCII character names, byte values, numeric bases, Teletype mnemonics, ISO/ECMA code positions, XML entity names, and slang names. Called without arguments, it prints a small ASCII chart.
Projektgeschichte
The official NEWS file records the first release by Eric S. Raymond as version 1.0 in March 1990. Through the 1990s it accumulated ISO-style code table escapes, contributed changes, a splash-screen idea, and option changes; version 3.0 in July 2000 added HTML/SGML entity names.
The modern 3.x line continued as a maintenance-oriented C utility. The NEWS file records a 2010 license change to BSD and ANSI C cleanup, 2011 additions from Debian, a 2013 Makefile fix from MacPorts, a 2015 project metadata move away from Gitorious, 2017 binary table output, 2024 CLI flag handling updates, and 2026 hardening/packaging work.
Adoptionsgeschichte
The official resource page states that the code is usually packaged as `ascii` and displays Repology package status. The input package facts show the formula is available across Homebrew, Debian, Fedora/DNF, MacPorts, Nix, Arch, Ubuntu, and openSUSE/Zypper, reflecting the utility's long-lived role as a tiny reference program in Unix collections.
Wie es verwendet wird
Package users typically install it for fast terminal lookup: provide a character, number, escape, mnemonic, or entity name and ascii prints the corresponding representations; run it with no arguments to get a chart. Recent options can force output radix with `-d`, `-o`, `-x`, or `-b`.
Warum Paket-Nerds sich dafür interessieren
ascii is package-nerd catnip because it is a small, old, useful command that survived several hosting eras and kept receiving portability and packaging fixes. The changelog explicitly names downstream pressure from Debian and MacPorts, and recent changes mention packager hardening flags, making it a clean example of a tiny utility shaped by distributions over decades.
Zeitleiste
- 1990-03: First public release, v1.0, by Eric S. Raymond.
- 1995-12: v2.0 adds ISO-style code table escapes.
- 2000-07: v3.0 adds HTML/SGML entity names.
- 2010-10: v3.10 changes license to BSD and polishes code to ANSI C.
- 2013-11: v3.13 adjusts Makefile behavior for MacPorts PREFIX convention.
- 2015-04: v3.15 updates project metadata after Gitorious decline.
- 2017-07: v3.17 adds binary code-point table output.
- 2026-03: v3.32 allows packager hardening flags and radix-forcing options.
Related projects
- Repology tracks packaged versions across distributions, and the official page embeds its package-status badge.
- Downstream package systems named in the input include Homebrew, Debian, Fedora, MacPorts, Nix, Arch, Ubuntu, and openSUSE.
Quellen
Sicherheitslage
Risikostufe: grün
narrow executable package without higher-risk signals.
Risikoklassifikator
grün Risiko · niedrig Konfidenz · appliance
Warum
- narrow executable package without higher-risk signals
Signale
- metadata:no-higher-risk-signals
Installationsverhalten
- Es wurden keine Homebrew-Bottle-Metadaten erfasst.
Empfohlene Prüfung
Prüfe vor unbeaufsichtigter Agent-Nutzung, ob das Tool Klartext-Credentials liest, Remote-Zustand schreibt, Artefakte veröffentlicht oder Plugins ausführt.
Executables
Installierte Executables
| Befehl | Art | Sichtbarkeit | Hinweis |
|---|---|---|---|
ascii | Executable | indexiertes Executable | Aus dem lokalen Executable-Index erkannt. |
Aktualität
Version und Aktualität
Diese Signale trennen das Alter der Seitengenerierung, Aktivität des Paketmanagers und Upstream-Release-Vergleich. Versionsrückstand wird nur gemeldet, wenn eine Evidenz-URL und vergleichbare Versionen vorhanden sind.
Seite generiert2026-08-03
Manager-Version3.32
Manager aktualisiert
lokale Datenunbekannt
Upstreamnicht verfügbar
neueste erkannte Versionnicht erkannt
- OKEs wurden keine Aktualitätswarnungen generiert.
Installationsmetadaten
Paketmetadaten
| Paketschlüssel | brew:ascii |
|---|---|
| Version | 3.32 |
| Paketmanager | Homebrew |
| Homepage | http://www.catb.org/~esr/ascii/ |
| Bottle | nicht erfasst |
| Dienst | keiner deklariert |
Quellspur
Aus Repository-Daten generiert
Diese Seite wird von av-web aus dem privaten Paket-SQLite-Artefakt bereitgestellt, das scripts/generate-pkg-sqlite.py erstellt.
Combined YAML source
View the package source record on GitHub.
Verwendete Quellen
- Geiger risk classifier
- Nucleus package database
- curated package history
- pkgdb category and tag curation