macOS
brew install boxeslocal Homebrew formula metadata
sudo port install boxesMacPorts ports tree · textproc/boxes/Portfile · ソース: api.github.com
brew / 順位 3250
boxes のインストール経路、実行ファイル、メタデータ、AI エージェント向けセキュリティノートを確認します。
インストール
brew install boxeslocal Homebrew formula metadata
sudo port install boxesMacPorts ports tree · textproc/boxes/Portfile · ソース: api.github.com
sudo apk add boxesAlpine Linux edge package indexes · boxes · ソース: dl-cdn.alpinelinux.org
sudo apt install boxesDebian stable package indexes · boxes · ソース: deb.debian.org
sudo dnf install boxesFedora Rawhide package metadata · boxes · ソース: dl.fedoraproject.org
nix profile install nixpkgs#boxesnixpkgs package indexes · pkgs/by-name/bo/boxes/package.nix · ソース: api.github.com
scoop install main/boxesScoop official bucket manifest trees · bucket/boxes.json · ソース: api.github.com
概要
Draw boxes around text
履歴
boxes is a long-lived Unix-style text filter for drawing, removing, and repairing ASCII art boxes around text. Its own README describes it as stable software that has existed since 1999 and remains available through many package managers.
The project is maintained under the ascii-boxes organization and documents Thomas Jensen's official website, manual page, and configuration syntax as its primary user-facing surfaces. The modern GitHub history includes a v1.0 tag in 2014 and ongoing maintenance releases into the 2020s, while the README says the program itself dates back to 1999.
The program's historical shape is classic filter culture: it reads text, applies a named box design, and writes transformed text. Later documentation emphasizes user-defined box designs, shared configuration files, editor integration, and portability across Unix-like systems and Windows.
The official README notes package-manager availability across apt, rpm, choco, brew, and other ecosystems. The Homebrew input also lists boxes in apk, brew, Debian, Fedora, MacPorts, Nix, Scoop, and Ubuntu, which matches its role as a small portable utility rather than a single-platform application.
Adoption is helped by its editor-filter workflow: the manual and website describe using boxes from editors that can pipe text through external filters, making it useful for source comments, email, plain-text notes, and README ornamentation.
Typical usage pipes text into the command, for example the official README's `echo foo | boxes`, then chooses designs with options such as listing available boxes. The configuration documentation explains that custom designs live in boxes config files and can be shared back through the repository.
Because it is a pure command-line filter, boxes composes naturally with shells, editors, and scripts. Its value is not heavy document rendering; it is quick decoration and comment-block formatting in plain text.
boxes is package-nerd catnip because it is tiny, old, portable, and visually obvious: a package manager installs one command and the user immediately sees a text transformation. It represents the ornamental side of Unix filters, where package collections preserve small tools whose usefulness is partly practical and partly cultural.
The project also has an unusually packageable asset: the box-design database. That makes it more than a binary wrapper; distributions are shipping a small command plus a community-curated catalog of ASCII layouts.
セキュリティ状態
narrow executable package without higher-risk signals.
リスク グリーン · 信頼度 低 · appliance
エージェントに無人実行させる前に、このツールが平文の認証情報を読むか、リモート状態を書き込むか、成果物を公開するか、プラグインを起動するかを確認してください。
local files
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.
Config paths the tool may read or write during local use.
~/.boxes~/.config/boxes/.boxes/usr/share/boxes実行可能ファイル
| コマンド | 種類 | 公開範囲 | メモ |
|---|---|---|---|
boxes | 実行可能ファイル | インデックス済み実行可能ファイル | ローカル実行可能ファイルインデックスから検出されました。 |
鮮度
これらの信号は、ページ生成時期、パッケージマネージャの活動、上流リリース比較を分けて示します。バージョン遅れは、証拠 URL と比較可能なバージョンがある場合だけ警告されます。
インストールメタデータ
| パッケージキー | brew:boxes |
|---|---|
| バージョン | 2.3.1 |
| パッケージマネージャ | Homebrew |
| ホームページ | https://boxes.thomasjensen.com/ |
| リポジトリ | https://github.com/ascii-boxes/boxes |
| 最終更新 | 2026-06-22T14:02:55-07:00 |
| Pulse | updated |
| Bottle | 未記録 |
| サービス | 宣言なし |
ソースデータベース一致
一致は外部パッケージマネージャインデックスから取得され、ローカルの Automic Vault パッケージリンクとは分けて表示されます。
boxes 2.3.1-1
textmode box- and comment drawing filter
https://boxes.thomasjensen.com/
sudo apt install boxesboxes
nix profile install nixpkgs#boxesboxes 2.2.1-1
textmode box- and comment drawing filter
https://boxes.thomasjensen.com/
sudo apt install boxesboxes 2.3.1-r0
Text mode box and comment drawing filter
https://boxes.thomasjensen.com
sudo apk add boxesboxes-doc 2.3.1-r0
Text mode box and comment drawing filter (documentation)
https://boxes.thomasjensen.com
sudo apk add boxes-docboxes 2.3.1-6.fc45
Command line ASCII boxes unlimited!
sudo dnf install boxesboxes-vim 2.3.1-6.fc45
Vim plugin for boxes
sudo dnf install boxes-vimboxes
sudo port install boxesmain/boxes
scoop install main/boxesソース経路
このページは scripts/generate-pkg-sqlite.py が生成した非公開のパッケージ SQLite アーティファクトから av-web によって提供されます。
View the package source record on GitHub.