# truetree mit Homebrew Cask installieren

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

## Installation

```sh
sudo av install cask:truetree
```

Weitere Installationsbefehle:

### macOS

- Homebrew Cask (100%):

```sh
brew install --cask truetree
```

  Evidenz: local Homebrew cask metadata

## Paketfakten

- **Paketschlüssel:** cask:truetree
- **Paketmanager:** Homebrew Cask
- **Version:** 0.8
- **Quellzusammenfassung:** Command-line tool for pstree-like output
- **Homepage:** <https://themittenmac.com/the-truetree-concept/>
- **Generiert:** 2026-08-03T19:37:03+00:00

## Executables

- TrueTree (Binärdatei)
- TrueTree (Alias)

## Installationsverhalten

- Bottle: nicht verfügbar

## Version und Aktualität

- Seite generiert: 2026-08-03
- Manager-Version: 0.8
## Projektgeschichte und Nutzung

TrueTree is a small macOS command-line process-tree utility aimed at incident responders and threat hunters who need a more useful process ancestry view than ordinary PID/PPID output.

### Projektgeschichte

The project grew out of Jaron Bradley's February 2020 write-up of the 'TrueTree' concept: on macOS, launchd and XPC often make ordinary process trees look flat or misleading, so the tool uses additional operating-system process metadata to reconstruct more helpful ancestry.

Its README later documented platform drift: after macOS 11 introduced runningboardd behavior that changed parentage observations, TrueTree was updated to use Application Services for some true-parent discovery while accepting that some terminated parents can no longer be recovered.

### Adoptionsgeschichte

TrueTree appears to have remained a specialist macOS security tool rather than a broad Unix replacement for pstree. Its Homebrew cask packaging made a compiled release easy to install on analyst Macs, while the GitHub project stayed compact and focused.

### Wie es verwendet wird

The tool is used from a root shell to print an enhanced process tree, optionally showing timestamps, parent-data sources, network information, or a standard PID/PPID tree for comparison.

In package-manager culture it is the kind of niche binary that belongs in a forensic or IR workstation bootstrap list: install it with Homebrew, run it during macOS triage, and compare its output with ps, Activity Monitor, and launchctl procinfo.

### Warum Paket-Nerds sich dafür interessieren

TrueTree matters to package nerds because it packages a very macOS-specific diagnostic idea as a single CLI. It is not a general-purpose process viewer; its value is that Homebrew users can install a purpose-built process-ancestry helper without compiling an Xcode project.

### Zeitleiste

- 2020: The TrueTree concept is published for macOS threat hunting and incident response.
- 2024: GitHub shows TrueTree 0.8 as the latest release.

### Related projects

- pstree and ps provide the traditional Unix process-tree baseline that TrueTree compares itself against.
- launchctl procinfo is the macOS source of several parentage clues described in the project write-up.

### Quellen

- <https://github.com/themittenmac/TrueTree>
- <https://themittenmac.com/the-truetree-concept/>


## Sicherheitshinweise

Für truetree wurde kein passendes lokales Secret-Handling-Manifest gefunden. Nucleus-Paketmetadaten bleiben hier veröffentlicht, damit künftige Abdeckung eine stabile Paket-URL hat.



## Combined YAML source

View the package source record on GitHub. [combined/truetree.yml](https://github.com/mxcl/pkgdb/blob/main/combined/truetree.yml)


## Quellen

- pkg.so package database
- curated package history
- pkgdb category and tag curation
- cross-ecosystem install command graph