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envv mit Homebrew installieren
Prüfe Installationswege, Executables, Metadaten und Sicherheitshinweise für envv in AI-Agent-Workflows.
Installation
Weitere Installationsbefehle
Überblick
Paketzusammenfassung
Shell-independent handling of environment variables
Projektlinks
Befehle und Aliase
- envv
Verlauf
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
Sicherheitslage
Risikostufe: yellow
generalized runtime or code generation signal.
Risikoklassifikator
yellow Risiko · mittel Konfidenz · runtime
Warum
- generalized runtime or code generation signal
Signale
- text:shell
Installationsverhalten
- Es wurden keine Homebrew-Bottle-Metadaten erfasst.
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Executables
Installierte Executables
| Befehl | Art | Sichtbarkeit | Hinweis |
|---|---|---|---|
envv | Executable | indexiertes Executable | Aus dem lokalen Executable-Index erkannt. |
Aktualität
Version und Aktualität
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Seite generiert2026-08-03
Manager-Version1.7
Manager aktualisiert2026-07-10
lokale Datenunbekannt
Upstreamnicht verfügbar
neueste erkannte Versionnicht erkannt
- OKEs wurden keine Aktualitätswarnungen generiert.
Installationsmetadaten
Paketmetadaten
| Paketschlüssel | brew:envv |
|---|---|
| Version | 1.7 |
| Paketmanager | Homebrew |
| Homepage | https://github.com/jakewendt/envv |
| Repository | https://github.com/jakewendt/envv |
| Zuletzt aktualisiert | 2026-07-10T19:51:01-04:00 |
| Pulse | updated |
| Bottle | nicht erfasst |
| Dienst | keiner deklariert |
Quellspur
Aus Repository-Daten generiert
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Combined YAML source
View the package source record on GitHub.
Verwendete Quellen
- Geiger risk classifier
- cross-ecosystem install command graph
- curated package history
- pkg.so package database
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