macOS
brew install mdcatlocal Homebrew formula metadata
sudo port install mdcatMacPorts ports tree · textproc/mdcat/Portfile · Source: api.github.com
brew / rang 2098
Consultez les chemins d'installation, exécutables, métadonnées et notes de sécurité de mdcat pour les workflows d'agents IA.
installation
brew install mdcatlocal Homebrew formula metadata
sudo port install mdcatMacPorts ports tree · textproc/mdcat/Portfile · Source: api.github.com
nix profile install nixpkgs#mdcatnixpkgs package indexes · mdcat · Source: raw.githubusercontent.com
scoop install main/mdcatScoop official bucket manifest trees · bucket/mdcat.json · Source: api.github.com
aperçu
Show markdown documents on text terminals
historique
mdcat is a Rust command-line renderer for Markdown/CommonMark documents in text terminals. It sits in the same user niche as cat, less, glow, and mdless, but emphasizes modern terminal features such as OSC 8 links, syntax highlighting, inline image protocols, math rendering, and terminal-specific navigation marks.
The mdcat crate was first published on crates.io in January 2018. Its current README credits Sebastian Wiesner and Mouhieddine Sabir in the copyright notice and says the project is now maintained by BIRSAx2.
The upstream changelog shows an active 2.x line through 2024 and 2026: version 2.4.0 added limited table support in September 2024, version 2.7.0 moved remote resource handling to curl in November 2024, version 2.8.0 transferred maintenance to BIRSAx2 in June 2026, and version 2.9.0 added footnote and math rendering shortly afterward.
mdcat moved from a Rust crate into mainstream package-manager culture. The input facts list packages in Homebrew, MacPorts, Nix, and Scoop, while the Homebrew formula reported stable version 2.9.1 and installation analytics in 2026.
Crates.io reported about 190,000 total downloads and a 2026 newest version of 2.9.1, which makes mdcat one of the better-known Rust terminal Markdown viewers rather than a one-off sample program.
Typical use is direct terminal viewing, for example `mdcat README.md`, with optional use as `mdless` when installed or linked that way for paging. Packagers are expected to consider shell completions and a man page built from `mdcat.1.adoc`.
The README documents best results in terminals with modern graphics and link protocols, including iTerm2, kitty, WezTerm, Ghostty, foot, and Sixel-capable xterm setups. It also documents a troubleshooting path through the `MDCAT_LOG` environment variable rather than a persistent configuration file.
mdcat is interesting to package maintainers because it is a terminal UI tool whose quality depends on optional terminal capabilities and native libraries, especially libcurl and image-rendering support. That gives formulas and distro packages more surface area than a plain text filter.
It is also a useful marker for the Rust CLI wave: a small binary distributed through Cargo, Homebrew, Nix-style systems, and other package managers, with release artifacts and generated shell completions as package extras.
posture de sécurité
Aucun manifest local de gestion des secrets correspondant n'a été trouvé pour mdcat. Les métadonnées de paquet Nucleus restent publiées ici afin que la couverture future dispose d'une URL stable.
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.
exécutables
| Commande | Type | Exposition | Note |
|---|---|---|---|
mdcat | exécutable | exécutable indexé | Découvert depuis l'index local des exécutables. |
fraîcheur
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métadonnées d'installation
| Clé du paquet | brew:mdcat |
|---|---|
| Version | 2.14.0 |
| Gestionnaire de paquets | Homebrew |
| Page d'accueil | https://github.com/BIRSAx2/mdcat |
| Dépôt | https://github.com/BIRSAx2/mdcat |
| Dernière mise à jour | 2026-07-27T13:02:59Z |
| Pulse | updated |
| Bouteille | non enregistré |
| Service | aucun déclaré |
correspondances dans les bases sources
Les correspondances proviennent d’index externes de gestionnaires de paquets et restent séparées des liens de paquets Automic Vault locaux.
mdcat
nix profile install nixpkgs#mdcatmdcat
sudo port install mdcatmain/mdcat
scoop install main/mdcatpiste source
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