# bgrep mit Homebrew installieren

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

## Installation

```sh
sudo av install brew:bgrep
```

Weitere Installationsbefehle:

### macOS

- Homebrew (100%):

```sh
brew install bgrep
```

  Evidenz: local Homebrew formula metadata

## Paketfakten

- **Paketschlüssel:** brew:bgrep
- **Paketmanager:** Homebrew
- **Version:** 0.3
- **Quellzusammenfassung:** Like grep but for binary strings
- **Homepage:** <https://github.com/tmbinc/bgrep>
- **Repository:** <https://github.com/tmbinc/bgrep>
- **Zuletzt aktualisiert:** 2026-06-10T03:29:15Z
- **Generiert:** 2026-08-03T19:37:03+00:00

## Executables

- bgrep (Alias)

## Installationsverhalten

- Bottle: nicht verfügbar

## Version und Aktualität

- Seite generiert: 2026-08-03
- Manager-Version: 0.3
## Projektgeschichte und Nutzung

bgrep is a tiny binary-pattern search utility: grep-like in spirit, but aimed at byte sequences in binary files rather than text lines.

### Projektgeschichte

The README gives the origin story plainly: the author was annoyed that grep could not look for binary strings and wrote a tool for that job. The GitHub repository was created in 2010, has a small tag history, and remains a compact C utility rather than a broad search framework.

### Adoptionsgeschichte

The input metadata records Homebrew packaging for bgrep. Its adoption is correspondingly modest and toolbelt-oriented: useful enough to package, but intentionally small.

### Wie es verwendet wird

bgrep searches for a hex byte pattern, can recurse through directories, can print before/after context bytes, can read a pattern from a file, and can apply a mask file for wildcard bytes. When no path is given, it reads standard input.

### Warum Paket-Nerds sich dafür interessieren

The package is significant in the classic Unix sense: one C file, one executable, one missing behavior from grep filled without pulling in a larger forensic suite. It is handy for firmware, image, dump, and protocol-payload spelunking.

### Zeitleiste

- 2010: Initial GitHub commit.
- 2011: bgrep-0.2 tag appears.
- 2026: bgrep-0.3 tag updates README usage around context flags.

### Related projects

- The obvious related tool is grep(1), which the README names as the motivation. It also overlaps with hex editors, hexdump/xxd workflows, and binary-analysis command-line tools.

### Quellen

- <https://api.github.com/repos/tmbinc/bgrep>
- <https://github.com/tmbinc/bgrep#readme>
- input.source_facts.package-manager


## Sicherheitshinweise

narrow executable package without higher-risk signals.

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


## Combined YAML source

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


## Quellen

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