# Install minised with Homebrew

Smaller, cheaper, faster SED implementation. Version 1.16 via Homebrew; verified from local package data.

## Install

```sh
sudo av install brew:minised
```

Additional install commands:

### macOS

- Homebrew (100%):

```sh
brew install minised
```

  Evidence: local Homebrew formula metadata

## Package facts

- **Package key:** brew:minised
- **Package manager:** Homebrew
- **Version:** 1.16
- **Source summary:** Smaller, cheaper, faster SED implementation
- **Homepage:** <https://exactcode.com/opensource/minised/>
- **Generated:** 2026-08-03T19:37:03+00:00

## Executables

- minised (alias)

## Install behavior

- Bottle: not available

## Freshness

- Page generated: 2026-08-03
- Package-manager version: 1.16
## Project history and usage

minised is ExactCODE's maintained descendant of a small historical sed implementation associated with Eric S. Raymond. ExactCODE describes the project as a smaller, cheaper, faster sed implementation that Minix used and that GNU once used before building its own sed around a larger regular-expression package.

### Project history

The project was revived for embedded use, especially with dietlibc, after ExactCODE found Raymond's implementation handy but buggy and no longer actively maintained. ExactCODE continued maintenance with fixes, cleanups, speedups, missing features, POSIX-conformance work, and a regression test suite. Its release archive shows roots in `sed-1.1` from 1995, `sed-1.3` from 1999, `sed-1.4` from 2003, minised-branded releases through the 2000s and 2010s, and version 1.16 in 2021.

### How it is used

The package-manager niche is deliberately narrow: a tiny stream editor for systems where GNU sed is bigger than needed, plus a historical Unix text-processing implementation for people who want a small BSD-licensed `sed` executable. Homebrew ships it as `minised` with no runtime dependencies.

### Sources

- <http://svn.exactcode.de/minised/trunk>
- <https://exactcode.com/opensource/minised/>
- <https://formulae.brew.sh/api/formula/minised.json>
- <https://formulae.brew.sh/formula/minised>


## Security Notes

narrow executable package without higher-risk signals.

- **Geiger risk:** green / low
- narrow executable package without higher-risk signals


## Combined YAML source

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


## Sources

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