# fits を Homebrew でインストール

fits 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

```sh
sudo av install brew:fits
```

追加のインストールコマンド:

### macOS

- Homebrew (100%):

```sh
brew install fits
```

  証拠: local Homebrew formula metadata

## パッケージ情報

- **パッケージキー:** brew:fits
- **パッケージマネージャ:** Homebrew
- **バージョン:** 1.6.0
- **ソース概要:** File Information Tool Set
- **ホームページ:** <https://harvard-lts.github.io/fits/>
- **リポジトリ:** <https://github.com/harvard-lts/fits>
- **生成日時:** 2026-08-03T19:37:03+00:00

## 実行可能ファイル

- fits (エイリアス)
- fits-ngserver (エイリアス)

## インストール挙動

- Bottle: 利用不可

## バージョンと鮮度

- ページ生成日: 2026-08-03
- マネージャ版: 1.6.0
## プロジェクトの歴史と使われ方

FITS, the File Information Tool Set, is a Java command-line tool from Harvard Library Technology Services for identifying, validating, and extracting technical metadata from many file formats.

### プロジェクトの歴史

The official project description presents FITS as a wrapper that invokes and manages output from several open source characterization tools, converts their outputs into a common format, compares them, and consolidates the result into one XML output file.

The current GitHub repository was created in 2013. The release line visible on GitHub includes the late 0.8.x series, 1.0.x releases in 2016 and 2017, 1.2 and 1.3 in 2017-2018, 1.4 and 1.5 in 2018-2019, and 1.6.0 in January 2023.

### 採用の歴史

FITS adoption is strongest in digital preservation and repository operations, where repeatable file characterization matters more than a single detector's answer. Its documentation points to command-line use, a Java API, Docker workflows, and a separate FITS Web Service for deployment in application servers.

### 使われ方

Common usage runs FITS against a file or directory, optionally writing XML output to a file. Operators can use the bundled scripts, Docker image builds from release artifacts, custom FITS XML configuration, and Java API integration.

### パッケージ好きにとっての重要性

Package maintainers care about FITS because it bundles and coordinates heavyweight external tools such as ExifTool, JHOVE, Tika, MediaInfo, file, and jpylyzer. That makes versioning, Java compatibility, native helper binaries, and reproducible output part of the package story.

### タイムライン

- 2013: Current GitHub repository created.
- 2016: 1.0.2 release published.
- 2018: 1.3.0 release moved builds to Maven according to the README.
- 2019: 1.5.0 release published.
- 2023: 1.6.0 release published.

### Related projects

- Related tools include ExifTool, JHOVE, Apache Tika, MediaInfo, file, jpylyzer, the FITS Web Service, and digital preservation repository systems.

### ソース

- <https://harvard-lts.github.io/fits/>
- <https://github.com/harvard-lts/fits>
- <https://github.com/harvard-lts/fits/releases>
- <http://fitstool.org/user-manual>
- <http://fitstool.org/developer-manual>


## セキュリティノート

broad file, network, media, or database tool signal.

- **Geiger リスク:** blue / 中
- broad file, network, media, or database tool signal


## 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

- Unix: xml/fits.xml, xml/fits_format_tree.xml, xml/fits_xml_map.xml, xml/format_map.txt, xml/mime_map.txt, xml/mime_to_format_map.txt

## Combined YAML source

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


## ソース

- pkg.so package database
- Geiger risk classifier
- curated configuration and credential file locations
- curated package history
- pkgdb category and tag curation
- cross-ecosystem install command graph