# Installer xe avec Homebrew, apt, Nix

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

## installation

```sh
sudo av install brew:xe
```

Commandes d'installation supplémentaires:

### macOS

- Homebrew (100%):

```sh
brew install xe
```

  Preuve: local Homebrew formula metadata

### Linux

- Debian apt (92%):

```sh
sudo apt install xe
```

  Preuve: Debian stable package indexes: xe from https://deb.debian.org/debian/dists/stable/main/binary-amd64/Packages.xz

- Nix (92%):

```sh
nix profile install nixpkgs#xe
```

  Preuve: nixpkgs package indexes: pkgs/by-name/xe/xe/package.nix from https://api.github.com/repos/NixOS/nixpkgs/git/trees/master?recursive=1

## Faits du paquet

- **Clé du paquet:** brew:xe
- **Gestionnaire de paquets:** Homebrew
- **Version:** 1.0
- **Résumé source:** Simple xargs and apply replacement
- **Page d'accueil:** <https://github.com/leahneukirchen/xe>
- **Dépôt:** <https://github.com/leahneukirchen/xe>
- **Généré:** 2026-08-03T19:37:03+00:00

## exécutables

- xe (alias)

## Comportement d'installation

- Bouteille: non disponible

## Version et fraîcheur

- page générée: 2026-08-03
- version du gestionnaire: 1.0
## Historique du projet et usages

xe is Leah Neukirchen's compact command-construction utility: a public-domain replacement-style tool that combines favored parts of xargs(1) and apply(1) for executing commands over argument lists.

### Historique du projet

The GitHub repository was created in 2015, with the first tag v0.1 following in November 2015 and v1.0 tagged in August 2023. The README presents the project plainly as a simple xargs and apply replacement, and the manpage expands the name as 'execute for every ...'.

### Historique d'adoption

xe's adoption appears modest and Unix-tool focused rather than platform-defining. It reached package managers such as Homebrew, Debian/Ubuntu, and Nix because it is a tiny C command with a clear niche: predictable argument splitting, replacement, dry runs, parallel execution, and pattern-based command selection.

### Modes d'utilisation

Users pipe newline- or NUL-separated arguments into xe, pass arguments directly on the command line, run shell snippets with -s when needed, or use -j for parallel jobs. The manpage examples include compressing files with all CPU cores, removing empty files from another listing command, and converting media with percent rules.

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

xe is a package-nerd kind of tool because it exists in the gap between POSIX tradition and day-to-day ergonomics. It does not try to replace the shell; it packages a sharper default behavior for the common 'run this for every thing' pattern.

### Chronologie

- 2015-10-24: GitHub repository is created.
- 2015-11-02: v0.1 is tagged.
- 2023-08-01: The xe manpage date records the mature command interface.
- 2023-08-05: v1.0 is tagged.

### Related projects

- xargs is the standard command-construction tool xe explicitly improves on.
- apply is the older utility whose replacement model xe also borrows from.
- GNU parallel and xapply are listed in xe's SEE ALSO section.

### Sources

- <https://api.github.com/repos/leahneukirchen/xe>
- <https://github.com/leahneukirchen/xe>
- <https://raw.githubusercontent.com/leahneukirchen/xe/master/xe.1>


## Notes de sécurité

generalized runtime or code generation signal.

- **Risque Geiger:** yellow / moyen
- generalized runtime or code generation signal

## Autres enregistrements de gestionnaires de paquets

- Debian apt - xe - 0.11-5: normalized package name match | Debian stable package indexes: xe from https://deb.debian.org/debian/dists/stable/main/binary-amd64/Packages.xz | simple alternative to xargs and apply | https://git.vuxu.org/xe/about/
- Nix - xe: normalized package name match | nixpkgs package indexes: pkgs/by-name/xe/xe/package.nix from https://api.github.com/repos/NixOS/nixpkgs/git/trees/master?recursive=1
- Ubuntu apt - xe - 0.11-5: normalized package name match | Ubuntu 24.04 LTS package indexes: xe from https://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/noble/universe/binary-amd64/Packages.gz | simple alternative to xargs and apply | https://git.vuxu.org/xe/about/


## Combined YAML source

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


## Sources

- pkg.so package database
- Geiger risk classifier
- curated package history
- pkgdb category and tag curation
- external package-manager database matches
- cross-ecosystem install command graph