utiluti mit Homebrew installieren

Projektlinks

• Homepage

Befehle und Aliase

• utiluti

Projektgeschichte

The official repository was created in November 2022, and utiluti 1.0 was publicly released in March 2025. Subsequent releases added application inspection, per-file defaults, bulk management from files or managed preferences, a man page, file-extension input, and richer type information.

Adoptionsgeschichte

utiluti is distributed as a signed installer package from GitHub releases and through Homebrew. Its current-user execution model and support for managed preferences make it especially relevant to Mac administration and endpoint-automation workflows, although newer macOS releases may require interactive user confirmation for default-app changes.

Wie es verwendet wird

The url and type command groups inspect, list, or set handlers for URL schemes and UTIs; app commands report bundle identifiers, versions, and declared types or schemes; file commands work with per-file associations. The manage command can apply multiple mappings from a file or managed preferences.

Warum Paket-Nerds sich dafür interessieren

utiluti provides a scriptable, Swift-native interface to Launch Services behavior that is otherwise spread across graphical settings and lower-level system APIs. For Mac package and fleet maintainers, it turns default-browser, mail-client, IDE, and document-handler setup into auditable command-line operations while exposing the user-confirmation constraints imposed by macOS.

Zeitleiste

• 2022: The official GitHub repository is created.
• 2025: Version 1.0 is released; versions 1.1-1.3 add app and file inspection, bulk management, and a man page.
• 2026: Versions 1.4 and 1.5 refine type listing, file-extension workflows, and type information.

Related projects

• swift-argument-parser: The Swift command-line parsing library used by utiluti.
• macadmins/default-browser: A related macOS default-browser automation approach referenced by the official README.
• LSTemplatePkg: A related packaging approach referenced for handling macOS confirmation behavior.

Quellen

• https://api.github.com/repos/scriptingosx/utiluti
• https://api.github.com/repos/scriptingosx/utiluti/releases?per_page=100
• https://github.com/scriptingosx/utiluti#readme
• https://github.com/scriptingosx/utiluti/blob/main/ChangeLog.md
• https://github.com/scriptingosx/utiluti/releases
• source_facts.package-manager