# Installer hilite avec Homebrew, MacPorts

Consultez les chemins d'installation, exécutables, métadonnées et notes de sécurité de hilite pour les workflows d'agents IA.

## installation

```sh
sudo av install brew:hilite
```

Commandes d'installation supplémentaires:

### macOS

- Homebrew (100%):

```sh
brew install hilite
```

  Preuve: local Homebrew formula metadata

- MacPorts (94%):

```sh
sudo port install hilite
```

  Preuve: MacPorts ports tree: sysutils/hilite/Portfile from https://api.github.com/repos/macports/macports-ports/git/trees/master?recursive=1

## Faits du paquet

- **Clé du paquet:** brew:hilite
- **Gestionnaire de paquets:** Homebrew
- **Page du gestionnaire de paquets:** <https://formulae.brew.sh/formula/hilite>
- **Version:** 1.5
- **Résumé source:** CLI tool that runs a command and highlights STDERR output
- **Page d'accueil:** <https://sourceforge.net/projects/hilite/>
- **Docs amont:** <https://sourceforge.net/projects/hilite/>
- **Licence:** GPL-2.0-or-later
- **Archive source:** <https://downloads.sourceforge.net/project/hilite/hilite/1.5/hilite.c>
- **Généré:** 2026-08-04T22:13:35+00:00

## exécutables

- hilite (cli)
- hilite (alias)

## Comportement d'installation

- hook post-installation: non défini
- Bouteille: disponible sur arm64_big_sur, arm64_linux, arm64_monterey, arm64_sequoia, arm64_sonoma, arm64_tahoe, arm64_ventura, big_sur, catalina, monterey, sonoma, ventura

## Version et fraîcheur

- page générée: 2026-08-04
- version du gestionnaire: 1.5
- données locales: OK
- dépôt amont: https://sourceforge.net/projects/hilite/
- info: No package-manager update timestamp was available.
- info: Release/tag comparison is only available for GitHub repositories.
## Historique du projet et usages

hilite is a small SourceForge-era command wrapper that runs another command and highlights anything that command writes to standard error. Its official project description frames it mainly as a build-output aid for making warnings and errors stand out.

### Historique du projet

The official SourceForge file RSS lists `hilite/1.5/hilite.c` with a November 2001 publication date, indicating a compact single-C-file release style rather than a large repository-driven project.

A 2001 project news post discusses attempts to push this standard-error-highlighting idea deeper into shells, xterms, ttys, and pseudo-terminal handling, which explains both the utility's purpose and the practical limits that kept it as an explicit wrapper command.

### Historique d'adoption

The input package map shows hilite packaged by Homebrew and MacPorts. That is suitable for a tiny build-output helper: it has enough command-line utility to live in package managers, but not enough official project material to support a broad ecosystem history.

### Modes d'utilisation

The intended use is to prefix a build or other noisy command with `hilite`, letting normal output pass while visually distinguishing text written to standard error.

The project news notes that running an interactive shell under hilite is possible in a limited sense, but terminal job-control and pseudo-terminal behavior make full transparent shell integration difficult.

### Pourquoi les passionnés de paquets s'y intéressent

hilite is package-nerd interesting as a tiny Unix filter around the stdout/stderr distinction. It represents the class of small tools that package managers keep around because they solve one terminal annoyance with almost no ceremony.

Its thinness is also the limit: official sources support the purpose, release artifact, and tty discussion, but not a deep roadmap or active ecosystem.

### Chronologie

- 2001: SourceForge news post discusses the shell/tty limits around transparent stderr highlighting.
- 2001: SourceForge file feed lists hilite 1.5 source as `hilite.c`.

### Related projects

- Shells, xterm-style terminals, and pseudo-terminal handling are the related operating-system concepts discussed by the project's own news post.
- Build tools such as make are the natural use case because they produce warning and error streams where stderr highlighting helps.

### Sources

- File feed: https://sourceforge.net/projects/hilite/rss?path=/
- News post: https://sourceforge.net/rest/p/hilite/news/2001/08/the-struggle-continues/
- Project REST metadata: https://sourceforge.net/rest/p/hilite
- Project page: https://sourceforge.net/projects/hilite/


## Notes de sécurité

narrow executable package without higher-risk signals.

- **Risque Geiger:** vert / faible
- narrow executable package without higher-risk signals

## Détails de la base source

- **Source Database:** Homebrew formula API
- **Tap:** homebrew/core
- **Full Name:** hilite
- **Version Scheme:** 0
- **Revision:** 0
- **Bottle Stable Root URL:** <https://ghcr.io/v2/homebrew/core>
- **Deprecated:** no
- **Disabled:** no
- **Keg Only:** no
- **URL Keys:** stable

## Autres enregistrements de gestionnaires de paquets

- MacPorts - hilite: normalized package name match | MacPorts ports tree: sysutils/hilite/Portfile from https://api.github.com/repos/macports/macports-ports/git/trees/master?recursive=1


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## Combined YAML source

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


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