# xdg-ninja mit Homebrew, apk, Nix installieren Prüfe Installationswege, Executables, Metadaten und Sicherheitshinweise für xdg-ninja in AI-Agent-Workflows. ## Installation ```sh sudo av install brew:xdg-ninja ``` Weitere Installationsbefehle: ### macOS - Homebrew (100%): ```sh brew install xdg-ninja ``` Evidenz: local Homebrew formula metadata ### Linux - apk (92%): ```sh sudo apk add xdg-ninja ``` Evidenz: Alpine Linux edge package indexes: xdg-ninja from https://dl-cdn.alpinelinux.org/alpine/edge/testing/x86_64/APKINDEX.tar.gz - Nix (92%): ```sh nix profile install nixpkgs#xdg-ninja ``` Evidenz: nixpkgs package indexes: pkgs/by-name/xd/xdg-ninja/package.nix from https://api.github.com/repos/NixOS/nixpkgs/git/trees/master?recursive=1 ## Paketfakten - **Paketschlüssel:** brew:xdg-ninja - **Paketmanager:** Homebrew - **Version:** 0.2.0.2 - **Quellzusammenfassung:** Check your $HOME for unwanted files and directories - **Homepage:** - **Repository:** - **Generiert:** 2026-08-03T19:37:03+00:00 ## Executables - xdg-ninja (Alias) ## Installationsverhalten - Bottle: nicht verfügbar ## Version und Aktualität - Seite generiert: 2026-08-03 - Manager-Version: 0.2.0.2 ## Projektgeschichte und Nutzung xdg-ninja is a shell-based checker for users who want a cleaner home directory and better XDG Base Directory compliance. It scans for known dotfiles and directories in $HOME, then reports whether each one can be moved and how to do it. ### Projektgeschichte The project began in May 2022 with an initial shell implementation and an early import of supported-program data from the Arch Wiki XDG Base Directory page. The README still describes the configuration corpus as coming from the Arch Wiki, antidot, and user contributions. The tool deliberately keeps the main checker simple: a POSIX-like shell script, jq, and find are enough to run the tests. Later work added a Haskell helper, xdgnj, for generating and editing the JSON program configurations, while the README emphasizes that the shell script remains the core checker. ### Adoptionsgeschichte xdg-ninja grew with dotfiles culture and the recurring frustration that many command-line programs still create legacy ~/.name files even after the freedesktop.org XDG Base Directory Specification defined preferred locations for config, data, state, cache, and runtime files. The README documents Nix and Homebrew usage, but also warns that because upstream does not cut regular releases, Homebrew users should install and upgrade from HEAD. That is an unusually transparent adoption note and explains why package-manager versions may lag behind the living configuration database. ### Wie es verwendet wird Users run xdg-ninja in their home environment. The script checks known paths, prints warnings for unwanted files or directories, and renders Markdown help explaining whether the item is movable and what setting or migration step can relocate it. Contributors add JSON files under programs/. Each file names a program and the $HOME paths it creates, plus Markdown help for movable or unsupported cases. The XN_PROGRAMS_DIR environment variable can point the checker at an alternate configuration directory. ### Warum Paket-Nerds sich dafür interessieren xdg-ninja is important to package nerds because it turns the messy social problem of XDG compliance into a testable, crowd-maintained catalog. It is half lint tool, half living index of which CLI programs respect modern Unix home-directory conventions. It also exposes a subtle packaging issue: data freshness matters more than binary freshness. A stale packaged xdg-ninja can miss newly documented offenders even if the shell code itself still works. ### Zeitleiste - 2021-05-08: XDG Base Directory Specification 0.8 publication date. - 2022-05-12: xdg-ninja initial commit and first implementation. - 2022-05-12: Early supported-program data imported from the Arch Wiki article. - 2022-06-06: v0.2.0.0 tag. - 2024-02-03: v0.2.0.2 tag for the xdgnj helper release line. ### Related projects - XDG Base Directory Specification: defines the directory conventions xdg-ninja checks against. - Arch Wiki XDG Base Directory page: one of the configuration-data sources named by upstream. - antidot: another source of XDG migration knowledge credited by the README. - xdgnj: upstream helper for creating and previewing xdg-ninja program configuration files. ### Quellen - Git history and tags: https://github.com/b3nj5m1n/xdg-ninja - README, b3nj5m1n/xdg-ninja: https://github.com/b3nj5m1n/xdg-ninja#readme - XDG Base Directory Specification: https://specifications.freedesktop.org/basedir-spec/latest/ - xdg-ninja shell script: https://github.com/b3nj5m1n/xdg-ninja/blob/main/xdg-ninja.sh ## Sicherheitshinweise narrow executable package without higher-risk signals. - **Geiger-Risiko:** grün / niedrig - narrow executable package without higher-risk signals ## Configuration and credential file locations These source-backed paths show where this package keeps local settings or durable credentials. Automic Vault can use them as review targets for secret scanning, migration, and command approval. ## Configuration files - Unix: ./programs/ ## Andere Paketmanager-Einträge - Nix - xdg-ninja: normalized package name match | nixpkgs package indexes: pkgs/by-name/xd/xdg-ninja/package.nix from https://api.github.com/repos/NixOS/nixpkgs/git/trees/master?recursive=1 - apk - xdg-ninja - 0.2.0.2-r0: normalized package name match | Alpine Linux edge package indexes: xdg-ninja from https://dl-cdn.alpinelinux.org/alpine/edge/testing/x86_64/APKINDEX.tar.gz | Shell script which checks your home directory for unwanted files and directories | https://github.com/b3nj5m1n/xdg-ninja ## Combined YAML source View the package source record on GitHub. [combined/xdg-ninja.yml](https://github.com/mxcl/pkgdb/blob/main/combined/xdg-ninja.yml) ## Quellen - pkg.so package database - Geiger risk classifier - curated configuration and credential file locations - curated package history - pkgdb category and tag curation - external package-manager database matches - cross-ecosystem install command graph