ired mit Homebrew installieren

Projektlinks

• Homepage

Befehle und Aliase

• bdiff
• ired
• vired

Projektgeschichte

The ired README expands the name as independent raw editor and describes the tool as a minimalistic reimplementation of the radare shell, with source kept small and external applications expected to provide extension points. The GitHub repository was created in 2012, which places the standalone package after the early radare line and before radare2's broader packaging footprint became common.

Adoptionsgeschichte

Homebrew packages ired as a minimalistic hexadecimal editor designed for scripts. That packaging niche is narrower than full reverse-engineering suites: ired is for users who want a small raw editor command rather than the larger radare2 framework.

Wie es verwendet wird

ired exposes terse interactive commands for help, search, hexdump, writing strings or hex pairs, seeking, resizing, dumping and loading blocks, and running shell commands. The README lists portability across GNU/Linux, macOS, Windows through MinGW, Cygwin, Solaris, and BSD-family systems.

Warum Paket-Nerds sich dafür interessieren

ired is interesting because it packages the opposite end of the radare world from radare2: small, scriptable, and deliberately limited. It is the kind of package that survives because a tiny C tool can be easier to build, audit, and invoke from scripts than a full binary-analysis framework.

Zeitleiste

• 2012: The public GitHub repository was created.
• 2021: Repository activity shows maintenance into March 2021.
• Package-manager era: Homebrew carries ired as a standalone formula for script-oriented hexadecimal editing.

Related projects

• ired is related to radare and radare2, especially the older radare shell model that it intentionally reimplements in smaller form.

Quellen

• https://api.github.com/repos/radare/ired
• https://formulae.brew.sh/formula/ired
• https://github.com/radare/ired
• https://raw.githubusercontent.com/radare/ired/master/README.md