# fzy mit Homebrew, apk, apt, MacPorts, Nix, pacman, zypper installieren

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

## Installation

```sh
sudo av install brew:fzy
```

Weitere Installationsbefehle:

### macOS

- Homebrew (100%):

```sh
brew install fzy
```

  Evidenz: local Homebrew formula metadata

- MacPorts (94%):

```sh
sudo port install fzy
```

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

### Linux

- apk (92%):

```sh
sudo apk add fzy
```

  Evidenz: Alpine Linux edge package indexes: fzy from https://dl-cdn.alpinelinux.org/alpine/edge/community/x86_64/APKINDEX.tar.gz

- Debian apt (92%):

```sh
sudo apt install fzy
```

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

- Nix (92%):

```sh
nix profile install nixpkgs#fzy
```

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

- pacman (92%):

```sh
sudo pacman -S fzy
```

  Evidenz: Arch Linux sync databases: fzy from https://geo.mirror.pkgbuild.com/extra/os/x86_64/extra.db.tar.gz

- zypper (92%):

```sh
sudo zypper install fzy
```

  Evidenz: openSUSE Tumbleweed package metadata: fzy from https://download.opensuse.org/tumbleweed/repo/oss/repodata/50b07339cb64c8ed4091bdbabddadc1ff5737b090e478818a195b40d8a3292861a879139b4a3987c31109699fde9fbf4a716367ddf4eef77da75f96e3193d6ed-primary.xml.zst

## Paketfakten

- **Paketschlüssel:** brew:fzy
- **Paketmanager:** Homebrew
- **Version:** 1.1
- **Quellzusammenfassung:** Fast, simple fuzzy text selector with an advanced scoring algorithm
- **Homepage:** <https://github.com/jhawthorn/fzy>
- **Repository:** <https://github.com/jhawthorn/fzy>
- **Generiert:** 2026-08-03T19:37:03+00:00

## Executables

- fzy (Alias)

## Installationsverhalten

- Bottle: nicht verfügbar

## Version und Aktualität

- Seite generiert: 2026-08-03
- Manager-Version: 1.1
## Projektgeschichte und Nutzung

fzy is a small fuzzy text selector for the terminal, written in C, with an emphasis on speed, simplicity, and scoring quality. Its README presents it as both a command-line selector and an editor-plugin building block.

### Projektgeschichte

The repository was created in July 2014, and GitHub Releases show early 0.x releases in October 2014. The README positions fzy against fzf, pick, selecta, ctrlp, and similar tools, arguing that its scoring favors consecutive letters and word starts rather than merely short matches.

The 1.0 release was published in 2018, and the fzy 1.1 man page is dated July 2025. The man page describes the stable core interface: read newline-separated items from stdin, show a terminal menu, narrow with fuzzy matching, and print the selected item to stdout.

### Adoptionsgeschichte

The upstream README documents installation through Homebrew, MacPorts, Arch Linux/MSYS2 pacman, FreeBSD pkg, Gentoo Portage, Ubuntu/Debian apt, pkgsrc, openSUSE zypper, and source builds. That breadth reflects fzy's role as a compact Unix-style filter that distribution maintainers can package easily.

### Wie es verwendet wird

fzy is normally used as a filter in shell pipelines, for example `ls | fzy`, `vi $(find -type f | fzy)`, choosing a directory to `cd` into, selecting a process to kill, or selecting a Git branch. The README also gives Vim integration examples that pipe file lists through fzy and then open the selected file.

### Warum Paket-Nerds sich dafür interessieren

fzy is significant as the minimal C member of the fuzzy-finder family: it exposes the classic stdin-to-stdout Unix interface, has a documented scoring algorithm, avoids a large runtime, and is small enough to be carried by many Unix package systems.

### Zeitleiste

- 2014: GitHub repository created.
- 2014: Releases 0.1 and 0.2 published.
- 2018: Release 1.0 published.
- 2025: Release v1.1 published and man page dated for fzy 1.1.

### Related projects

- The README compares fzy with fzf, pick, selecta, and ctrlp, and lists fzy.js as a JavaScript port. Its Vim usage examples place it in the same editor-workflow space as older fuzzy file selectors.

### Quellen

- <https://api.github.com/repos/jhawthorn/fzy>
- <https://github.com/jhawthorn/fzy>
- <https://github.com/jhawthorn/fzy/releases>
- <https://raw.githubusercontent.com/jhawthorn/fzy/master/README.md>
- <https://raw.githubusercontent.com/jhawthorn/fzy/master/fzy.1>


## Sicherheitshinweise

narrow executable package without higher-risk signals.

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

## Andere Paketmanager-Einträge

- Debian apt - fzy - 1.0-1: normalized package name match | Debian stable package indexes: fzy from https://deb.debian.org/debian/dists/stable/main/binary-amd64/Packages.xz | fast, simple fuzzy text selector | https://github.com/jhawthorn/fzy
- Nix - fzy: normalized package name match | nixpkgs package indexes: pkgs/by-name/fz/fzy/package.nix from https://api.github.com/repos/NixOS/nixpkgs/git/trees/master?recursive=1
- Ubuntu apt - fzy - 1.0-1: normalized package name match | Ubuntu 24.04 LTS package indexes: fzy from https://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/noble/universe/binary-amd64/Packages.gz | fast, simple fuzzy text selector | https://github.com/jhawthorn/fzy
- apk - fzy - 1.1-r1: normalized package name match | Alpine Linux edge package indexes: fzy from https://dl-cdn.alpinelinux.org/alpine/edge/community/x86_64/APKINDEX.tar.gz | A better fuzzy finder | https://github.com/jhawthorn/fzy
- apk - fzy-doc - 1.1-r1: normalized package name match | Alpine Linux edge package indexes: fzy-doc from https://dl-cdn.alpinelinux.org/alpine/edge/community/x86_64/APKINDEX.tar.gz | A better fuzzy finder (documentation) | https://github.com/jhawthorn/fzy
- pacman - fzy - 1.1-1: normalized package name match | Arch Linux sync databases: fzy from https://geo.mirror.pkgbuild.com/extra/os/x86_64/extra.db.tar.gz | A better fuzzy finder | https://github.com/jhawthorn/fzy
- zypper - fzy - 1.1-1.5: normalized package name match | openSUSE Tumbleweed package metadata: fzy from https://download.opensuse.org/tumbleweed/repo/oss/repodata/50b07339cb64c8ed4091bdbabddadc1ff5737b090e478818a195b40d8a3292861a879139b4a3987c31109699fde9fbf4a716367ddf4eef77da75f96e3193d6ed-primary.xml.zst | A fuzzy text selector | https://github.com/jhawthorn/fzy
- MacPorts - fzy: normalized package name match | MacPorts ports tree: devel/fzy/Portfile from https://api.github.com/repos/macports/macports-ports/git/trees/master?recursive=1


## Combined YAML source

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