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General purpose fuzzy finder TUI. Version 0.15.9 via Homebrew; verified 2026-06-15.
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overview
Package summary
General purpose fuzzy finder TUI
Project links
Commands and aliases
- tv
history
Project history and usage
Television is a fast, portable fuzzy finder for the terminal, exposed as the `tv` command. It belongs to the modern terminal-productivity niche: fuzzy search across files, text, Git repositories, environment variables, containers, and custom data sources.
Project history
The alexpasmantier/television repository was created in September 2024, and GitHub releases show early packaged releases by November 2024. The project documentation describes it as a fuzzy finder that searches through many kinds of data in real time.
Television positions itself as a general-purpose, extensible terminal picker rather than only a file finder. Its docs emphasize built-in channels for common tasks and custom channels for arbitrary data sources.
Adoption history
Television's adoption is early but visible in package-manager metadata: Homebrew, MacPorts, Nix, Arch, Scoop, and winget entries are present in the input facts, and the GitHub repository has thousands of stars and dozens of releases.
The tool spread through the same audience that uses fzf, skim, ripgrep, fd, and editor pickers: users who want a fast terminal UI and composable Unix workflows.
How it is used
Users run `tv` as an interactive picker over built-in or custom channels. The official docs say it can search files, Git repositories, environment variables, Docker containers, and other sources, and that users can create custom channels.
For package nerds, Television matters because it is a new Rust-style terminal utility with prebuilt assets, a short executable name, shell integration, and config paths that package managers can normalize.
Why package nerds care
Television is significant as part of the current wave of high-performance terminal UX tools: it packages a fuzzy matcher, preview UI, and channel system into one installable binary.
Its niche is not mature-infrastructure critical like Teleport or Telegraf, but it is package-manager interesting because rapid releases and cross-platform binaries make Brew and other managers the easiest way to keep the tool current.
Timeline
- 2024: alexpasmantier/television repository created.
- 2024: Early GitHub release v0.4.15 published.
- 2025: Television gains package-manager and terminal-community visibility as a general-purpose fuzzy finder.
- 2026: 0.15.9 is published with release assets for macOS and Linux.
Related projects
- fzf and skim are adjacent terminal fuzzy finders.
- Neovim Telescope is a conceptual neighbor in picker-driven workflows.
- Helix's nucleo matcher is part of the broader Rust terminal-search ecosystem referenced by related project material.
Sources
security posture
No protected-tool coverage found yet
No matching local secret-handling manifest was found for television. Nucleus package metadata is still published here so future coverage has a stable package URL.
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.
local files
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
Config paths the tool may read or write during local use.
- Unix
~/.config/television/config.toml$XDG_CONFIG_HOME/television/config.toml$TELEVISION_CONFIG/config.toml- Windows
%LocalAppData%\television\config\config.toml
executables
Installed executables
| Command | Kind | Exposure | Note |
|---|---|---|---|
tv | 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 version0.15.9
manager updated2026-06-15
local dataunknown
upstreamnot available
latest detectednot detected
- okNo freshness warnings were generated.
install metadata
Package metadata
| Package key | brew:television |
|---|---|
| Version | 0.15.9 |
| Package manager | Homebrew |
| Homepage | https://alexpasmantier.github.io/television/ |
| Repository | https://github.com/alexpasmantier/television |
| Last updated | 2026-06-15T10:21:22-04:00 |
| Pulse | updated |
| Bottle | not recorded |
| Service | none declared |
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
- Nucleus package database
- curated configuration and credential file locations
- curated package history
- pkgdb category and tag curation