使用 Homebrew 安装 lolcrab

项目链接

• 主页

命令和别名

• lolcrab

项目历史

The official README says `lolcrab` is a fork of `lcat-rs`, placing it in the family of playful terminal color filters descended from `lolcat`. The GitHub repository was created in 2021, and GitHub releases show the public 0.2 through 0.4 series continuing into 2025.

采用历史

`lolcrab` is distributed as a Rust crate and through package-manager channels. Its README points users to precompiled Linux, macOS, and Windows binaries on GitHub releases, documents `cargo install lolcrab`, and includes a Repology packaging badge; the batch input records Homebrew packaging.

使用方式

The CLI accepts files or standard input, defaults to a rainbow gradient, and exposes options for gradient selection, custom CSS gradients, noise scale, seed, inverted/background coloring, animation, and version/help output. The README also documents library use from Rust through `Lolcrab::new` and `colorize_str`.

为什么软件包爱好者会关心

`lolcrab` is small but package-catalog-friendly: it is a cross-platform terminal toy, a Rust binary crate, and a modern variant of the long-running `lolcat` terminal-filter idea. It is useful when testing packaging of Rust CLI tools with release binaries and Cargo installation paths.

时间线

• 2021: `mazznoer/lolcrab` repository created on GitHub.
• 2022: v0.2.0 release published on GitHub.
• 2024: v0.4.0 release published on GitHub.
• 2025: v0.4.1 release published on GitHub.

Related projects

• `lcat-rs` is the upstream project named in the README as the fork source.
• `lolcat` is the older terminal-colorizer concept that `lolcrab` explicitly references.

来源

• https://api.github.com/repos/mazznoer/lolcrab
• https://github.com/mazznoer/lolcrab#readme
• https://github.com/mazznoer/lolcrab/releases/tag/v0.4.1
• source_facts.package-manager-url