macOS
Homebrewverified · 100%
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Install zet with Homebrew, Nix
CLI utility to find the union, intersection, and set difference of files. Version 2.0.1 via Homebrew; verified 2026-07-10. Also installable with nix: nix profile install nixpkgs#zet.
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Linux
Nixverified · 92%
nix profile install nixpkgs#zetnixpkgs package indexes · pkgs/by-name/ze/zet/package.nix · source: api.github.com
overview
Package summary
CLI utility to find the union, intersection, and set difference of files
Project links
Commands and aliases
- zet
history
Project history and usage
zet is a focused Rust command-line tool for treating files as sets of lines and computing union, intersection, difference, single-occurrence, and multiple-occurrence results while removing duplicates.
Project history
The public trail is mostly the repository and a July 2021 Rust Users Forum announcement. The author positioned zet as a small Unix-style utility comparable to uniq and comm, but aimed at direct set operations over whole files rather than sorted-stream workflows.
How it is used
Users run commands such as zet union, zet intersect, and zet diff over two or more input files. The README emphasizes that output preserves the order in which lines first appear, while the forum announcement notes details such as UTF-16 handling, BOM behavior, line-ending normalization, and memory use proportional to the largest argument plus output.
Why package nerds care
zet is a nice package-catalog specimen because it fills a tiny gap left by classic POSIX text tools: set algebra over lines without forcing the user to pre-sort files or compose a longer shell pipeline.
Timeline
- 2021-07-05: zet is announced on the Rust Users Forum as a CLI for set operations on files considered as sets of lines.
Related projects
- uniq and comm are the traditional Unix comparison points named by the project README.
- setutils is a broader family of command-line set-operation utilities in a similar niche.
Sources
security posture
Risk level: green
narrow executable package without higher-risk signals.
Risk classifier
green risk · low confidence · appliance
Why
- narrow executable package without higher-risk signals
Signals
- metadata:no-higher-risk-signals
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.
executables
Installed executables
| Command | Kind | Exposure | Note |
|---|---|---|---|
zet | 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 version2.0.1
manager updated2026-07-10
local dataunknown
upstreamnot available
latest detectednot detected
- okNo freshness warnings were generated.
install metadata
Package metadata
| Package key | brew:zet |
|---|---|
| Version | 2.0.1 |
| Package manager | Homebrew |
| Homepage | https://github.com/yarrow/zet |
| Repository | https://github.com/yarrow/zet |
| Last updated | 2026-07-10T09:35:13-04:00 |
| Pulse | updated |
| Bottle | not recorded |
| Service | none declared |
source database matches
Other package-manager records
Matches are pulled from external package-manager indexes and kept separate from local Automic Vault package links.
Nix95%
zet
nix profile install nixpkgs#zet- normalized package name match
- Matched by: Zet
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
- cross-ecosystem install command graph
- curated package history
- external package-manager database matches
- pkg.so package database
- pkgdb category and tag curation