# 使用 Homebrew 安装 clip

查看 clip 的安装路径、可执行文件、元数据以及面向 AI 代理工作流的安全说明。

## 安装

```sh
sudo av install brew:clip
```

其他安装命令:

### macOS

- Homebrew (100%):

```sh
brew install clip
```

  证据: local Homebrew formula metadata

## 软件包事实

- **软件包键:** brew:clip
- **软件包管理器:** Homebrew
- **版本:** 0.7
- **来源摘要:** Create high-quality charts from the command-line
- **主页:** <https://github.com/asmuth/clip>
- **仓库:** <https://github.com/asmuth/clip>
- **已生成:** 2026-08-03T19:37:03+00:00

## 可执行文件

- clip (别名)

## 安装行为

- Bottle: 不可用

## 版本和新鲜度

- 页面生成时间: 2026-08-03
- 管理器版本: 0.7
## 项目历史与用法

clip is the command line illustration processor, a C++17 charting and data-driven illustration tool that turns text descriptions into SVG output. Its package-manager identity is a small but unusually well-starred command-line visualization tool rather than a clipboard utility, despite the formula name.

### 项目历史

The official README says the project began in 2011 under the name FnordMetric and originally included data storage and transformation facilities. Over time, the data-processing parts were removed, leaving the plotting and illustration engine, and the project was renamed to clip to avoid stale search results around the older name.

The current repository presents clip as both an open-source command-line program and software library for creating charts and other data-driven illustrations. The README points users to clip-lang.org for full documentation, examples, and installation notes.

### 采用历史

GitHub repository metadata recorded the project as created on 2011-09-16 and showed more than 5,000 stars and several hundred forks when checked for this enrichment run. Homebrew packages the stable 0.7 release from the upstream GitHub tag and reported hundreds of on-request installs over the preceding year.

### 使用方式

Users write a .clp-style text description of a plot or diagram and run commands such as `clip --export output.svg example.clp`. The README examples emphasize line charts, SVG output, C++17 source builds, and dependencies such as cairo, freetype, harfbuzz, fmtlib, and cmake.

### 为什么软件包爱好者会关心

clip is notable in package indexes because it is a compact Unix-style chart renderer with its own declarative language, sitting closer to gnuplot, Graphviz, and ggplot-inspired grammar systems than to generic clipboard tools. For Homebrew users, the package preserves a command-line visualization niche that is otherwise often handled by heavier language runtimes.

### 时间线

- 2011: Project starts as FnordMetric according to the official README.
- 2011-09-16: GitHub repository is created, according to GitHub repository metadata.
- 2020: README copyright and repository metadata reflect the modern clip name and C++ charting focus.
- 2026: Homebrew formula tracks stable release 0.7 from the official GitHub tag archive.

### Related projects

- The official README names The Grammar of Graphics and ggplot2 as conceptual influences for plot-element structure, and CSS as an influence on syntax and styling concepts.
- The rendering stack relies on freetype and harfbuzz, placing clip in the same practical ecosystem as other precise SVG and text-rendering tools.

### 来源

- <https://github.com/asmuth/clip#readme>
- <https://clip-lang.org/>
- <https://formulae.brew.sh/api/formula/clip.json>
- <https://github.com/asmuth/clip>


## 安全说明

narrow executable package without higher-risk signals.

- **Geiger 风险:** 绿色 / 低
- narrow executable package without higher-risk signals


## Combined YAML source

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


## 来源

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