# Install fselect with Homebrew, MacPorts, Nix, scoop, winget

Find files with SQL-like queries. Version 0.10.2 via Homebrew; verified 2026-06-28. Also installable with nix: nix profile install nixpkgs#fselect.

## Install

```sh
sudo av install brew:fselect
```

Additional install commands:

### macOS

- Homebrew (100%):

```sh
brew install fselect
```

  Evidence: local Homebrew formula metadata

- MacPorts (94%):

```sh
sudo port install fselect
```

  Evidence: MacPorts ports tree: sysutils/fselect/Portfile from https://api.github.com/repos/macports/macports-ports/git/trees/master?recursive=1

### Linux

- Nix (92%):

```sh
nix profile install nixpkgs#fselect
```

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

### Windows

- Scoop (92%):

```sh
scoop install main/fselect
```

  Evidence: Scoop official bucket manifest trees: bucket/fselect.json from https://api.github.com/repos/ScoopInstaller/Main/git/trees/master?recursive=1

- winget (92%):

```sh
winget install --id fselect.fselect -e
```

  Evidence: Windows Package Manager source index: fselect.fselect from https://cdn.winget.microsoft.com/cache/source.msix

## Package facts

- **Package key:** brew:fselect
- **Package manager:** Homebrew
- **Version:** 0.10.2
- **Source summary:** Find files with SQL-like queries
- **Homepage:** <https://fselect.rocks>
- **Repository:** <https://github.com/jhspetersson/fselect>
- **Last updated:** 2026-06-28T12:27:37Z
- **Generated:** 2026-08-03T19:37:03+00:00

## Executables

- fselect (alias)

## Install behavior

- Bottle: not available

## Freshness

- Page generated: 2026-08-03
- Package-manager version: 0.10.2
## Project history and usage

fselect is a command-line file-search tool that lets users query filesystem metadata with a relaxed SQL-like language. It is written in Rust and distributed through source builds, release binaries, and multiple package managers.

### Project history

The upstream README frames fselect as a complement rather than a full replacement for traditional `find` and `ls`. Its feature set grew around filesystem metadata queries: paths and sizes, dates, regular expressions, archive search, ignore-file support, media metadata, hashes, MIME types, permissions, output formats, and interactive mode.

By the 0.10 series, release notes show the project adding support for `plocate` and Everything indexes, subqueries in FROM clauses, date functions, git-related fields, and more metadata extractors.

### Adoption history

The official README documents installation from Cargo, Debian/Ubuntu packages, RPM packages, Arch AUR, NixOS, Windows binaries, winget, Chocolatey, Scoop, Homebrew, and MacPorts. That range made fselect a cross-platform package-manager citizen rather than only a Rust crate.

### How it is used

Users run queries such as `fselect size, path from /home/user where name = '*.cfg'` or quote a whole query string. The grammar supports SELECT-like column lists, FROM roots, WHERE expressions, GROUP BY, ORDER BY, LIMIT, OFFSET, and output formats.

The tool is useful when a shell pipeline would otherwise need several commands to filter by metadata, image dimensions, media tags, permissions, timestamps, archive contents, or indexed file-search backends.

### Why package nerds care

fselect is notable in package-manager culture as a Rust CLI that recasts a classic Unix task as a query language. Its packaging matrix also shows the modern path for developer tools: Cargo first, prebuilt GitHub assets, then Homebrew, MacPorts, winget, Scoop, Chocolatey, Nix, AUR, and distro packages.

### Timeline

- 0.8.x: fselect already had a public GitHub release series.
- 0.10.0: The project entered the 0.10 release line.
- 0.10.1: Release notes added FROM-clause subqueries and date functions.
- 0.10.2: Release notes added plocate and Everything support plus additional metadata fields.

### Related projects

- Traditional Unix `find` and `ls` are the tools the README positions fselect alongside.
- plocate and Everything are optional index-backed search integrations documented by the project.

### Sources

- <https://fselect.rocks/>
- <https://github.com/jhspetersson/fselect>
- <https://github.com/jhspetersson/fselect/releases>


## Security Notes

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

- **Geiger risk:** blue / medium
- broad file, network, media, or database tool signal

## Other Package-Manager Records

- Nix - fselect: normalized package name match | nixpkgs package indexes: pkgs/by-name/fs/fselect/package.nix from https://api.github.com/repos/NixOS/nixpkgs/git/trees/master?recursive=1
- MacPorts - fselect: normalized package name match | MacPorts ports tree: sysutils/fselect/Portfile from https://api.github.com/repos/macports/macports-ports/git/trees/master?recursive=1
- Scoop - main/fselect: normalized package name match | Scoop official bucket manifest trees: bucket/fselect.json from https://api.github.com/repos/ScoopInstaller/Main/git/trees/master?recursive=1
- winget - fselect.fselect: normalized package name match | Windows Package Manager source index: fselect.fselect from https://cdn.winget.microsoft.com/cache/source.msix


## Combined YAML source

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