# Install trzsz with Homebrew, scoop, winget

Simple file transfer tools, similar to lrzsz (rz/sz), and compatible with tmux. Version 1.1.5 via Homebrew; verified from local package data. Also installable with scoop: scoop install main/trzsz.

## Install

```sh
sudo av install brew:trzsz
```

Additional install commands:

### macOS

- Homebrew (100%):

```sh
brew install trzsz
```

  Evidence: local Homebrew formula metadata

### Windows

- Scoop (92%):

```sh
scoop install main/trzsz
```

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

- winget (92%):

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

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

## Package facts

- **Package key:** brew:trzsz
- **Package manager:** Homebrew
- **Version:** 1.1.5
- **Source summary:** Simple file transfer tools, similar to lrzsz (rz/sz), and compatible with tmux
- **Homepage:** <https://trzsz.github.io>
- **Generated:** 2026-08-03T19:37:03+00:00

## Executables

- trz (alias)
- trzsz-iterm2 (alias)
- tsz (alias)

## Install behavior

- Bottle: not available

## Freshness

- Page generated: 2026-08-03
- Package-manager version: 1.1.5
## Project history and usage

trzsz is a family of terminal file-transfer tools centered on trz for upload and tsz for download. Its official README describes it as similar to lrzsz/rz/sz but compatible with tmux, with support for directories, resume, progress display, Windows servers, native terminal wrappers, web terminals, and drag-and-drop upload.

### Project history

The project was created to solve a specific terminal workflow gap: rz/sz-style transfer is convenient through nested SSH, jump hosts, containers, and remote shells, but lrzsz is not compatible with tmux. The README states that tmux was not going to support rz/sz, so trzsz was developed as a tmux-compatible alternative.

### Adoption history

The ecosystem expanded from the original Python package into Go, JavaScript, iTerm2, web-terminal, and SSH-client integrations. Official documentation now presents trzsz, tssh, and tsshd together as modern SSH file-transfer and remote-terminal tools, and the README lists supported terminals including tssh, iTerm2, Tabby, electerm, ttyd, trzsz-go, and trzsz.js.

### How it is used

The core workflow is server-side installation plus local support. Users run `trz` to receive uploads on the remote side and `tsz` to send downloads, much like rz and sz. The tool is especially useful when scp or sftp become awkward through chains such as laptop to jump host to another host to Docker to tmux.

### Why package nerds care

trzsz is significant to package nerds because it revives the classic rz/sz workflow for modern terminal stacks and splits that functionality across multiple packages and languages. Homebrew carries both the original `trzsz` package and the Go-oriented `trzsz-go`, while the wider ecosystem also includes tssh for local support and JavaScript bindings for web terminals.

### Timeline

- 2022: Early release notes show binary mode, interrupt handling, a production release, and directory-transfer support becoming part of the original Python package line.
- 2023: v1.1.1 added iTerm2 drag-and-drop uploads and Windows/speed optimizations.
- 2024: v1.1.5 synchronized features from the Go version.
- 2026: The official site presents trzsz together with tssh and tsshd as a modern SSH file-transfer and remote-terminal toolkit.

### Related projects

- trzsz-go is the Go implementation and is recommended by official docs for server-side use.
- trzsz-ssh/tssh is the recommended local SSH client for trzsz transfers.
- trzsz.js provides webshell and Electron-terminal integration, while the iTerm2 integration handles native macOS terminal workflows.

### Sources

- <https://github.com/trzsz/trzsz#readme>
- <https://github.com/trzsz/trzsz-go#readme>
- <https://github.com/trzsz/trzsz-ssh#readme>
- <https://github.com/trzsz/trzsz/releases>
- <https://trzsz.github.io/>
- source_facts.description
- source_facts.package-manager


## Security Notes

narrow executable package without higher-risk signals.

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

## Other Package-Manager Records

- Scoop - main/trzsz: normalized package name match | Scoop official bucket manifest trees: bucket/trzsz.json from https://api.github.com/repos/ScoopInstaller/Main/git/trees/master?recursive=1
- winget - trzsz.trzsz: normalized package name match | Windows Package Manager source index: trzsz.trzsz from https://cdn.winget.microsoft.com/cache/source.msix


## Combined YAML source

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