# nyan mit Homebrew, Nix installieren

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

## Installation

```sh
sudo av install brew:nyan
```

Weitere Installationsbefehle:

### macOS

- Homebrew (100%):

```sh
brew install nyan
```

  Evidenz: local Homebrew formula metadata

### Linux

- Nix (92%):

```sh
nix profile install nixpkgs#nyan
```

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

## Paketfakten

- **Paketschlüssel:** brew:nyan
- **Paketmanager:** Homebrew
- **Version:** 1.2.6
- **Quellzusammenfassung:** Colorizing cat command with syntax highlighting
- **Homepage:** <https://github.com/toshimaru/nyan>
- **Repository:** <https://github.com/toshimaru/nyan>
- **Zuletzt aktualisiert:** 2026-07-26T19:43:17+02:00
- **Generiert:** 2026-08-03T19:37:03+00:00

## Executables

- nyan (Alias)

## Installationsverhalten

- Bottle: nicht verfügbar

## Version und Aktualität

- Seite generiert: 2026-08-03
- Manager-Version: 1.2.6
## Projektgeschichte und Nutzung

nyan is a Go command-line replacement for the narrow use case of running cat on source files while keeping terminal syntax highlighting. Its upstream README describes it as a colorizing cat command, with language selection, line numbers, and selectable themes such as monokai, dracula, pygments, and solarized variants.

### Projektgeschichte

The GitHub repository was created on 2019-07-08 by toshimaru. The README explicitly ties the name to Nyan Cat, but the tool's implementation niche is practical rather than novelty: plain file output with optional syntax coloring instead of a pager-first workflow.

### Adoptionsgeschichte

nyan started as a small Homebrew-tap style developer utility and the README notes that version 1.2.0 was merged into homebrew-core. The Homebrew formula API reported stable version 1.2.6 and 610 installs over the 365-day analytics window queried on 2026-07-01, which fits a modest but real CLI-tool audience.

### Wie es verwendet wird

Package nerds use nyan where bat is more UI than they want: quick terminal inspection of files with colors, sometimes with --language to force highlighting, --theme to match a terminal theme, --number for line numbers, and --list-themes to preview palettes.

### Warum Paket-Nerds sich dafür interessieren

nyan sits in the tiny ecosystem of colorizing cat clones such as ccat and bat. Its significance is mostly packaging shape: a small Go single-command utility that graduated into homebrew-core because it cleanly solves one terminal habit.

### Zeitleiste

- 2019-07-08: GitHub repository created.
- v1.2.0: upstream README says nyan was merged into homebrew-core.
- 2026-07-01: Homebrew formula API reported stable version 1.2.6.

### Related projects

- bat
- ccat
- Nyan Cat

### Quellen

- <https://api.github.com/repos/toshimaru/nyan>
- <https://formulae.brew.sh/api/formula/nyan.json>
- <https://github.com/toshimaru/nyan>
- <https://raw.githubusercontent.com/toshimaru/nyan/master/README.md>


## Sicherheitshinweise

narrow executable package without higher-risk signals.

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

## Andere Paketmanager-Einträge

- Nix - nyan: normalized package name match | nixpkgs package indexes: pkgs/by-name/ny/nyan/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/nyan.yml](https://github.com/mxcl/pkgdb/blob/main/combined/nyan.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