使用 Homebrew 安装 krep

项目链接

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命令和别名

• krep

项目历史

The GitHub repository was created on 2025-03-08. The README describes krep as an optimized string search utility with mmap-based I/O, adaptive algorithms, SIMD acceleration, multithreading, recursive traversal controls, JSON Lines output, context display, and statistics.

The README's name note says krep was inspired by the Icelandic word kreppan and was chosen as a short command name for frequent terminal use. Version 3.0 is described as the point where the tool moved from a minimal scanner into a more practical daily search CLI.

采用历史

Public adoption evidence is thin compared with established search tools. Packaging in Homebrew, MacPorts, and Nix shows that it reached multiple package-manager ecosystems, but the official materials do not document a large user community or institutional deployment history.

使用方式

krep is used like grep-style search tools: fixed-string or regex searches over files, directories, stdin, or literal strings, with recursive filtering, .gitignore support, JSON Lines output, quiet checks, file listing, and selectable algorithms.

For package users, the appeal is a single native CLI binary with performance features exposed through familiar command-line flags rather than a service or library integration.

为什么软件包爱好者会关心

krep is package-nerd interesting mostly as another entry in the modern grep replacement lineage: it combines classic POSIX search expectations with hardware-aware optimizations and machine-readable output, while staying small enough for straightforward source packaging.

时间线

• 2025-03-08: The krep GitHub repository was created.
• 2026: The README described version 3.0 as the move from minimal fast scanner to daily search CLI.

Related projects

• Related tools include grep, ripgrep, The Silver Searcher, and other source-tree search utilities. krep's README explicitly compares reproducible benchmarks against ripgrep.

来源

• https://formulae.brew.sh/formula/krep
• https://github.com/davidesantangelo/krep
• https://github.com/davidesantangelo/krep#readme
• https://ports.macports.org/port/krep/
• https://search.nixos.org/packages?query=krep