# topfew mit Homebrew, MacPorts, Nix installieren

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

## Installation

```sh
sudo av install brew:topfew
```

Weitere Installationsbefehle:

### macOS

- Homebrew (100%):

```sh
brew install topfew
```

  Evidenz: local Homebrew formula metadata

- MacPorts (94%):

```sh
sudo port install topfew
```

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

### Linux

- Nix (92%):

```sh
nix profile install nixpkgs#topfew
```

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

## Paketfakten

- **Paketschlüssel:** brew:topfew
- **Paketmanager:** Homebrew
- **Version:** 2.0.0
- **Quellzusammenfassung:** Finds the field values which appear most often in a stream of records
- **Homepage:** <https://github.com/timbray/topfew>
- **Repository:** <https://github.com/timbray/topfew>
- **Zuletzt aktualisiert:** 2026-07-26T00:51:25+02:00
- **Generiert:** 2026-08-03T19:37:03+00:00

## Executables

- topfew (Alias)

## Installationsverhalten

- Bottle: nicht verfügbar

## Version und Aktualität

- Seite generiert: 2026-08-03
- Manager-Version: 2.0.0
## Projektgeschichte und Nutzung

topfew is a Go command-line utility for finding the most frequent records or field combinations in text streams and files. It packages a familiar Unix analysis pattern into a faster, purpose-built binary.

### Projektgeschichte

Tim Bray created Topfew as a utility for counting common values in streams of records, with the README crediting his version 0.1 and later work toward 1.0 to ideas from Dirkjan Ochtman and Simon Fell. The project reached a documented 1.0 release in April 2024, and the current README describes release 2.0.

The design is explicitly close to traditional shell composition: the README states that its result can be duplicated with awk, grep, sed, sort, uniq, and head, but argues that Topfew is for cases where performance matters on large inputs. The examples are package-nerd friendly: Apache logs, quoted fields, grep/vgrep filters, sed-style cleanups, and multi-threaded file processing.

### Adoptionsgeschichte

topfew is niche but packaged beyond its source repository. The input package metadata lists Homebrew, MacPorts, and Nix package names, matching its role as a small single-purpose CLI that is useful enough to show up in Unix package collections.

### Wie es verwendet wird

The basic form is `topfew --fields 1 access_log`, which finds the most common first field in an Apache log. More advanced use combines field selection, regex separators, grep and inverse-grep filters, sed-style transformations, quoted-field parsing, output limits, and worker counts.

### Warum Paket-Nerds sich dafür interessieren

topfew matters to package nerds because it is a performance-oriented replacement for a shell pipeline they already know. It is the sort of small binary people install from Homebrew or Nix when a log-analysis one-liner becomes too slow or too hard to repeat.

### Zeitleiste

- 2020: Author blog posts describe Topfew as a small utility replacing the `sort | uniq -c | sort -rn | head` pattern.
- 2024: Tim Bray announced Topfew 1.0.
- Current: README describes release 2.0 and documents Homebrew-friendly CLI usage.

### Related projects

- awk, grep, sed, sort, uniq, head, Apache httpd logs, Go runtime.

### Quellen

- <https://github.com/timbray/topfew#readme>
- <https://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/202x/2020/07/01/More-Topfew-Fun>
- <https://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/202x/2024/04/12/Topfew-release>
- source_facts.package-manager


## Sicherheitshinweise

broad file, network, media, or database tool signal.

- **Geiger-Risiko:** blue / mittel
- broad file, network, media, or database tool signal

## Andere Paketmanager-Einträge

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