# fcp mit Homebrew, Nix installieren

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

## Installation

```sh
sudo av install brew:fcp
```

Weitere Installationsbefehle:

### macOS

- Homebrew (100%):

```sh
brew install fcp
```

  Evidenz: local Homebrew formula metadata

### Linux

- Nix (92%):

```sh
nix profile install nixpkgs#fcp
```

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

## Paketfakten

- **Paketschlüssel:** brew:fcp
- **Paketmanager:** Homebrew
- **Version:** 0.2.1
- **Quellzusammenfassung:** Significantly faster alternative to the classic Unix cp(1) command
- **Homepage:** <https://github.com/Svetlitski/fcp/>
- **Repository:** <https://github.com/Svetlitski/fcp>
- **Zuletzt aktualisiert:** 2026-06-19T12:30:06-07:00
- **Generiert:** 2026-08-03T19:37:03+00:00

## Executables

- fcp (Alias)

## Installationsverhalten

- Bottle: nicht verfügbar

## Version und Aktualität

- Seite generiert: 2026-08-03
- Manager-Version: 0.2.1
## Projektgeschichte und Nutzung

fcp is a Rust command-line file-copy tool that targets the common Unix `cp` workflow but optimizes for parallel directory traversal and SSD-backed copies.

### Projektgeschichte

The public repository was created in January 2021, and its early v0.1.0 tag appeared in June 2021. The README frames the project narrowly: it is not a complete `cp` replacement, but a faster implementation for the most common copy cases.

### Adoptionsgeschichte

The upstream README documents installation by cargo, prebuilt GitHub release binaries, Homebrew on macOS, Arch Linux through an AUR package, and NixOS stable beginning with NixOS 21.11. That adoption is modest but enough to make it visible to Unix package users looking for faster bulk copies.

### Wie es verwendet wird

The supported command shape mirrors common `cp`: copy one source to a destination file, or copy multiple sources into a destination directory. The README notes Unix-like operating-system support and warns that the tool is optimized for SSDs, with poor performance possible on hard drives.

Its performance story is based on parallelizing directory walking and copying across CPU cores, plus platform copy-on-write support on macOS through underlying system calls.

### Warum Paket-Nerds sich dafür interessieren

fcp is a small example of the modern package-manager niche around faster Rust rewrites of core Unix-adjacent commands. Its significance is practical rather than historical: install it when its benchmarked copy pattern matches your storage, keep `cp` for full POSIX option compatibility.

### Zeitleiste

- 2021: Public repository created.
- 2021: v0.1.0 tag published and README benchmark material documented.
- 2026: v0.2.2 tag published.

### Related projects

- fcp positions itself directly against classic Unix `cp(1)` for common copy use cases.
- Its README links the macOS large-file speedup to copy-on-write behavior exposed by the operating system.

### Quellen

- <https://github.com/Svetlitski/fcp>
- <https://github.com/Svetlitski/fcp/blob/master/README.md>
- <https://api.github.com/repos/Svetlitski/fcp>
- <https://api.github.com/repos/Svetlitski/fcp/tags?per_page=100>


## Sicherheitshinweise

narrow executable package without higher-risk signals.

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

## Andere Paketmanager-Einträge

- Nix - fcp: normalized package name match | nixpkgs package indexes: pkgs/by-name/fc/fcp/package.nix from https://api.github.com/repos/NixOS/nixpkgs/git/trees/master?recursive=1


## Combined YAML source

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


## Quellen

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