macOS
Homebrewverified · 100%
brew install alignlocal Homebrew formula metadata
brew / rank 10586
Install align with Homebrew, Nix
Text column alignment filter. Version 1.7.5 via Homebrew; verified from local package data. Also installable with nix: nix profile install nixpkgs#align.
install
Additional install commands
Linux
Nixverified · 92%
nix profile install nixpkgs#alignnixpkgs package indexes · pkgs/by-name/al/align/package.nix · source: api.github.com
overview
Package summary
Text column alignment filter
Project links
Commands and aliases
- width
history
Project history and usage
align is a small Unix-style text filter by Stephen B. Kinzler for vertically aligning columns in separated text, distributed with the companion width utility.
Project history
The official page dates align to the 2000-2001 copyright period and the bundled width tool to 1993-2001. The page itself is dated December 2001 and advertises align 1.7.5 as a downloadable tarball rather than a public source-control repository.
The implementation is presented as installable Perl scripts: users can put align and width directly on PATH or use the supplied Makefile.
Adoption history
The input package-manager facts show align remains packaged by Homebrew and Nix, but the official project page does not document wider adoption beyond its Unix filter audience.
How it is used
Typical use is in pipelines over logs or tables. With whitespace-separated columns, align can infer separators and print aligned output; options can control input separators, output joiners, and left, right, center, numeric, or zero-padded numeric alignment. The companion width utility reports line widths and longest lines.
Why package nerds care
align is the kind of small, durable command-line filter package managers preserve because it composes with pipes and solves a narrow formatting job without a larger table-processing dependency.
Timeline
- 1993: width companion utility copyright period begins.
- 2000-2001: align copyright period.
- 2001: Official page dated December 2001 advertises align 1.7.5.
Related projects
- width: bundled companion utility for measuring printable line width.
Sources
- Official align homepage: https://kinzler.com/me/align
- source_facts.package-manager
security posture
Risk level: green
narrow executable package without higher-risk signals.
Risk classifier
green risk · low confidence · appliance
Why
- narrow executable package without higher-risk signals
Signals
- metadata:no-higher-risk-signals
Install behavior
- No Homebrew bottle metadata was recorded.
Recommended review
Before unattended agent use, check whether the tool reads plaintext credentials, writes remote state, publishes artifacts, or shells out to plugins.
executables
Installed executables
| Command | Kind | Exposure | Note |
|---|---|---|---|
width | executable | indexed executable | Discovered from the local executable index. |
freshness
Version and freshness
These signals separate page generation age, package-manager activity, and upstream release comparison. Version lag is warned only when an evidence URL and comparable versions are present.
page generated2026-08-03
manager version1.7.5
manager updated
local dataunknown
upstreamnot available
latest detectednot detected
- okNo freshness warnings were generated.
install metadata
Package metadata
| Package key | brew:align |
|---|---|
| Version | 1.7.5 |
| Package manager | Homebrew |
| Homepage | https://kinzler.com/me/align/ |
| Bottle | not recorded |
| Service | none declared |
source database matches
Other package-manager records
Matches are pulled from external package-manager indexes and kept separate from local Automic Vault package links.
Nix95%
align
nix profile install nixpkgs#align- normalized package name match
- Matched by: Align
source trail
Generated from repository data
This page is generated by av-web from the private package SQLite artifact built by scripts/generate-pkg-sqlite.py.
Combined YAML source
View the package source record on GitHub.
Used sources
- Geiger risk classifier
- cross-ecosystem install command graph
- curated package history
- external package-manager database matches
- pkg.so package database
- pkgdb category and tag curation