# hcl2json mit Homebrew, MacPorts, Nix installieren

Prüfe Installationswege, Executables, Metadaten und Sicherheitshinweise für hcl2json in AI-Agent-Workflows.

## Installation

```sh
sudo av install brew:hcl2json
```

Weitere Installationsbefehle:

### macOS

- Homebrew (100%):

```sh
brew install hcl2json
```

  Evidenz: local Homebrew formula metadata

- MacPorts (94%):

```sh
sudo port install hcl2json
```

  Evidenz: MacPorts ports tree: textproc/hcl2json/Portfile from https://api.github.com/repos/macports/macports-ports/git/trees/master?recursive=1

### Linux

- Nix (92%):

```sh
nix profile install nixpkgs#hcl2json
```

  Evidenz: nixpkgs package indexes: pkgs/by-name/hc/hcl2json/package.nix from https://api.github.com/repos/NixOS/nixpkgs/git/trees/master?recursive=1

## Paketfakten

- **Paketschlüssel:** brew:hcl2json
- **Paketmanager:** Homebrew
- **Version:** 0.6.9
- **Quellzusammenfassung:** Convert HCL2 to JSON
- **Homepage:** <https://github.com/tmccombs/hcl2json>
- **Repository:** <https://github.com/tmccombs/hcl2json>
- **Zuletzt aktualisiert:** 2026-07-25T20:56:30-04:00
- **Generiert:** 2026-08-03T19:37:03+00:00

## Executables

- hcl2json (Alias)

## Installationsverhalten

- Bottle: nicht verfügbar

## Version und Aktualität

- Seite generiert: 2026-08-03
- Manager-Version: 0.6.9
## Projektgeschichte und Nutzung

hcl2json is a small Go command-line converter for turning HashiCorp Configuration Language version 2 input into JSON. Its niche is not general Terraform evaluation; it is a bridge for scripts and non-Go programs that need to inspect HCL-shaped configuration without embedding a full HCL-aware application.

### Projektgeschichte

The repository was created in July 2019 and framed itself around HCL2 conversion at a time when HCL was becoming the shared configuration substrate for Terraform and other HashiCorp-style tools. The README says the tool was created because there were few direct schemaless converters, while later HashiCorp HCL tooling such as hcldec offered a more specification-driven path.

### Adoptionsgeschichte

Adoption stayed in the small-utility lane: Homebrew, MacPorts, Nix, prebuilt GitHub release binaries, Docker images, and tool-version-manager installs made it easy to drop into shell pipelines. The project matters most where HCL is data to inspect or transform rather than configuration to execute.

### Wie es verwendet wird

Typical use is piping an HCL file or stdin through hcl2json and redirecting JSON output for downstream tools. The README also documents a simplify mode and an HCL pack-format mode, while warning that some HCL constructs cannot be converted with exact semantic equivalence.

### Warum Paket-Nerds sich dafür interessieren

Package maintainers care about hcl2json because it is a single-purpose, Go-built CLI with no runtime service, no credentials, and obvious test fixtures: feed HCL in, compare JSON out. It fills the awkward gap between plain text processing and linking a whole HCL application stack.

### Zeitleiste

- 2019: GitHub repository created.
- 2019: v0.0.1 release published.
- 2020: 0.3.x releases broadened the early packaged surface.
- 2021: v0.3.2 release published.

### Related projects

- HashiCorp HCL provides the underlying configuration language and Go packages.
- Terraform is the most common class of HCL input mentioned by the project.
- hcldec is the upstream HCL command-line alternative for spec-guided decoding.

### Quellen

- <https://api.github.com/repos/tmccombs/hcl2json>
- <https://api.github.com/repos/tmccombs/hcl2json/releases>
- <https://github.com/hashicorp/hcl>
- <https://github.com/tmccombs/hcl2json>


## Sicherheitshinweise

narrow executable package without higher-risk signals.

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

## Andere Paketmanager-Einträge

- Nix - hcl2json: normalized package name match | nixpkgs package indexes: pkgs/by-name/hc/hcl2json/package.nix from https://api.github.com/repos/NixOS/nixpkgs/git/trees/master?recursive=1
- MacPorts - hcl2json: normalized package name match | MacPorts ports tree: textproc/hcl2json/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/hcl2json.yml](https://github.com/mxcl/pkgdb/blob/main/combined/hcl2json.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