# Install walk with Homebrew, apk, Nix, scoop, winget

Terminal navigator. Version 1.13.0 via Homebrew; verified 2026-07-25. Also installable with nix: nix profile install nixpkgs#walk.

## Install

```sh
sudo av install brew:walk
```

Additional install commands:

### macOS

- Homebrew (100%):

```sh
brew install walk
```

  Evidence: local Homebrew formula metadata

### Linux

- apk (92%):

```sh
sudo apk add walk
```

  Evidence: Alpine Linux edge package indexes: walk from https://dl-cdn.alpinelinux.org/alpine/edge/testing/x86_64/APKINDEX.tar.gz

- Nix (92%):

```sh
nix profile install nixpkgs#walk
```

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

### Windows

- Scoop (92%):

```sh
scoop install main/walk
```

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

- winget (92%):

```sh
winget install --id antonmedv.walk -e
```

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

## Package facts

- **Package key:** brew:walk
- **Package manager:** Homebrew
- **Version:** 1.13.0
- **Source summary:** Terminal navigator
- **Homepage:** <https://github.com/antonmedv/walk>
- **Repository:** <https://github.com/antonmedv/walk>
- **Last updated:** 2026-07-25T22:40:19+02:00
- **Generated:** 2026-08-03T19:37:03+00:00

## Executables

- walk (alias)

## Install behavior

- Bottle: not available

## Freshness

- Page generated: 2026-08-03
- Package-manager version: 1.13.0
## Project history and usage

Walk is Anton Medvedev's small terminal navigator and file manager, designed more as an interactive cd/ls replacement than a full orthodox file manager. Its README centers the workflow on running the shell integration command, navigating with arrow keys or hjkl, and returning the selected directory to the shell.

### Project history

Walk emerged in the recent wave of Go terminal user-interface tools that make command-line navigation visual without becoming full desktop file managers. The project is part of Anton Medvedev's family of terminal utilities, alongside tools such as fx and howto, and is published as a cross-platform open source binary.

The public release stream shows active packaging work through 2024 and 2025. v1.10.0 in June 2024 focused on file arrangement and bug fixes, while v1.13.0 in February 2025 added syntax highlighting and shipped prebuilt binaries for macOS, Linux, and Windows architectures.

### How it is used

Walk is used by shell users who want a fast, visual directory picker rather than a broad file-management suite. It is commonly compared with tools such as broot, nnn, and ranger, but its own README and third-party reviews emphasize minimal navigation, fuzzy search, opening an editor, and printing or changing to the selected path.

### Why package nerds care

Its package significance is modest but clear: it is a single-purpose terminal UX tool that demonstrates the current packaging pattern for small Go CLIs, with Homebrew, Go install, Scoop, WinGet, and binary releases all serving the same executable.

### Sources

- <https://github.com/antonmedv/walk>
- <https://github.com/antonmedv/walk/releases>
- <https://medv.io/projects>
- <https://snapcraft.io/install/walk/ubuntu>
- <https://www.linuxlinks.com/walk-terminal-navigator/2/>


## Security Notes

narrow executable package without higher-risk signals.

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

## Other Package-Manager Records

- Nix - walk: normalized package name match | nixpkgs package indexes: pkgs/by-name/wa/walk/package.nix from https://api.github.com/repos/NixOS/nixpkgs/git/trees/master?recursive=1
- apk - walk - 1.13.0-r14: normalized package name match | Alpine Linux edge package indexes: walk from https://dl-cdn.alpinelinux.org/alpine/edge/testing/x86_64/APKINDEX.tar.gz | Terminal file manager | https://github.com/antonmedv/walk
- apk - walk-doc - 1.13.0-r14: normalized package name match | Alpine Linux edge package indexes: walk-doc from https://dl-cdn.alpinelinux.org/alpine/edge/testing/x86_64/APKINDEX.tar.gz | Terminal file manager (documentation) | https://github.com/antonmedv/walk
- Scoop - main/walk: normalized package name match | Scoop official bucket manifest trees: bucket/walk.json from https://api.github.com/repos/ScoopInstaller/Main/git/trees/master?recursive=1
- winget - antonmedv.walk: normalized package name match | Windows Package Manager source index: antonmedv.walk from https://cdn.winget.microsoft.com/cache/source.msix


## Combined YAML source

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