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Installer mcfly avec Homebrew
Consultez les chemins d'installation, exécutables, métadonnées et notes de sécurité de mcfly pour les workflows d'agents IA.
installation
Commandes d'installation supplémentaires
aperçu
Résumé du paquet
Fly through your shell history
Liens du projet
Commandes et alias
- mcfly
historique
Historique du projet et usages
McFly is a shell-history replacement for reverse search, designed to make Ctrl-R results context-aware instead of purely chronological. The project describes itself as an upgraded Ctrl-R that considers the current directory, command exit status, timestamps, and prior shell history.
Historique du projet
The official GitHub repository was created in July 2018, and the first listed GitHub release, v0.1.0, was published on 2018-10-12. It is written in Rust and integrates with Bash, Zsh, Fish, and PowerShell rather than replacing the shell itself.
McFly's README emphasizes reversibility: it augments shell history in a SQLite database while maintaining the normal shell history file, so users can stop using McFly without losing the conventional history path. That design choice helped it fit into conservative shell setups.
Historique d'adoption
The supplied package-manager facts list McFly across Homebrew, MacPorts, Alpine, Arch, Nix, Scoop, WinGet, and openSUSE/Zypper, showing broad packaging across Unix-like and Windows-adjacent ecosystems.
The README documents Homebrew, MacPorts, WinGet, install-script, manual release, source, and Zinit installation paths. It also includes release-process notes for Homebrew, reflecting long-running package-manager maintenance rather than a one-off binary upload.
Modes d'utilisation
Typical use is rebinding Ctrl-R in a shell startup file so McFly opens a full-screen history search UI. The tool stores enhanced history metadata in an OS-specific SQLite database and can dump history to stdout for scripting or inspection.
McFly's settings are mostly environment-variable based, with color settings stored in a config.toml under the McFly data directory. The README documents the macOS application-support path, Linux XDG data path, and a legacy ~/.mcfly fallback.
Pourquoi les passionnés de paquets s'y intéressent
McFly is package-nerd interesting because it modernized an old shell muscle-memory path without requiring a new shell or large framework. It is a Rust CLI with many package-manager entries, a small executable surface, and visible cross-shell integration details.
Its use of SQLite for enriched history also makes it part of the broader trend of CLIs turning plain-text shell workflows into indexed local databases while preserving escape hatches back to ordinary files.
Chronologie
- 2018-07: GitHub repository created.
- 2018-10: v0.1.0 published on GitHub releases.
- 2023-2025: Continued 0.8 and 0.9 release series.
- 2025-12: v0.9.4 published on GitHub releases.
Related projects
- Related shell-history tools include fzf-based Ctrl-R bindings, atuin, hstr, and shell-native history search. McFly's official positioning is specifically an intelligent replacement for Ctrl-R rather than a full shell environment.
Sources
- https://github.com/cantino/mcfly
- https://github.com/cantino/mcfly#readme
- https://github.com/cantino/mcfly/releases
- source_facts.package-manager
posture de sécurité
Niveau de risque : yellow
generalized runtime or code generation signal.
Classificateur de risque
risque yellow · confiance moyen · runtime
Pourquoi
- generalized runtime or code generation signal
Signaux
- text:shell
Comportement d'installation
- Aucune métadonnée de bottle Homebrew n’a été enregistrée.
Revue recommandée
Avant une utilisation sans surveillance par un agent, vérifiez si l'outil lit des identifiants en clair, écrit un état distant, publie des artefacts ou lance des plugins.
local files
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
Config paths the tool may read or write during local use.
- Linux
$XDG_DATA_DIR/mcfly/config.toml~/.local/share/mcfly/config.toml~/.mcfly/config.toml- macOS
~/Library/Application Support/McFly/config.toml~/.mcfly/config.toml
exécutables
Exécutables installés
| Commande | Type | Exposition | Note |
|---|---|---|---|
mcfly | exécutable | exécutable indexé | Découvert depuis l'index local des exécutables. |
fraîcheur
Version et fraîcheur
Ces signaux séparent l'âge de génération de la page, l'activité du gestionnaire de paquets et la comparaison avec les versions amont. Un retard de version n'est signalé que lorsqu'une URL de preuve et des versions comparables sont présentes.
page générée2026-08-03
version du gestionnaire0.9.4
gestionnaire mis à jour
données localesinconnu
amontnon disponible
dernière version détectéenon détecté
- OKAucun avertissement de fraîcheur n'a été généré.
métadonnées d'installation
Métadonnées du paquet
| Clé du paquet | brew:mcfly |
|---|---|
| Version | 0.9.4 |
| Gestionnaire de paquets | Homebrew |
| Page d'accueil | https://github.com/cantino/mcfly |
| Dépôt | https://github.com/cantino/mcfly |
| Bouteille | non enregistré |
| Service | aucun déclaré |
piste source
Généré depuis les données du dépôt
Cette page est servie par av-web depuis l'artéfact SQLite privé des paquets généré par scripts/generate-pkg-sqlite.py.
Combined YAML source
View the package source record on GitHub.
Sources utilisées
- Geiger risk classifier
- Nucleus package database
- curated configuration and credential file locations
- curated package history
- pkgdb category and tag curation