# bibtex-tidy mit Homebrew, Nix installieren

Prüfe Installationswege, Executables, Metadaten und Sicherheitshinweise für bibtex-tidy in AI-Agent-Workflows.

## Installation

```sh
sudo av install brew:bibtex-tidy
```

Weitere Installationsbefehle:

### macOS

- Homebrew (100%):

```sh
brew install bibtex-tidy
```

  Evidenz: local Homebrew formula metadata

### Linux

- Nix (92%):

```sh
nix profile install nixpkgs#bibtex-tidy
```

  Evidenz: nixpkgs package indexes: pkgs/by-name/bi/bibtex-tidy/package.nix from https://api.github.com/repos/NixOS/nixpkgs/git/trees/master?recursive=1

## Paketfakten

- **Paketschlüssel:** brew:bibtex-tidy
- **Paketmanager:** Homebrew
- **Paketmanager-Seite:** <https://formulae.brew.sh/formula/bibtex-tidy>
- **Version:** 1.14.0
- **Quellzusammenfassung:** Cleaner and Formatter for BibTeX files
- **Homepage:** <https://flamingtempura.github.io/bibtex-tidy/>
- **Repository:** <https://github.com/FlamingTempura/bibtex-tidy>
- **Upstream-Dokumentation:** <https://flamingtempura.github.io/bibtex-tidy>
- **Lizenz:** MIT
- **Quellarchiv:** <https://registry.npmjs.org/bibtex-tidy/-/bibtex-tidy-1.14.0.tgz>
- **Zuletzt aktualisiert:** 2026-06-15T10:20:10-04:00
- **Generiert:** 2026-07-25T07:20:51+00:00

## Executables

- bibtex-tidy (cli)
- bibtex-tidy (Alias)

## Abhängigkeiten

- node

## Installationsverhalten

- Post-install-Hook: nicht definiert
- Bottle: verfügbar auf all

## Version und Aktualität

- Seite generiert: 2026-07-25
- Manager-Version: 1.14.0
- Manager aktualisiert: 2026-06-15
- lokale Daten: OK
- Upstream-Repository: https://flamingtempura.github.io/bibtex-tidy/
- Info: Release/tag comparison is only available for GitHub repositories.
## Projektgeschichte und Nutzung

bibtex-tidy is a JavaScript/TypeScript formatter and cleaner for BibTeX files, shipped as a CLI, browser app, API, Docker image, and pre-commit hook.

### Projektgeschichte

The public GitHub repository begins with an initial commit in December 2017, and the package.json describes the project as 'Tidy bibtex files' with a bibtex-tidy command-line executable.

The changelog records growth from basic cleanup into duplicate checking, multi-file operation, pre-commit integration, trailing commas, empty-field removal, wrapping, key generation, and a higher-performance parser.

### Adoptionsgeschichte

bibtex-tidy fits the formatter wave that made source-formatting tools common in developer workflows: the README documents browser use, CLI installation through npm, a JavaScript/TypeScript API, Docker, and pre-commit usage.

Homebrew and Nix packaging make it available to users who manage bibliography tooling alongside other command-line development utilities rather than through npm alone.

### Wie es verwendet wird

Typical usage is running bibtex-tidy against a .bib file to normalize indentation, field alignment, casing, URL encoding, field ordering, duplicates, and output behavior.

The v1.10 changelog previews a v2-style safer CLI where files are not overwritten by default unless --modify is specified, reflecting the package's role in automated formatting pipelines.

### Warum Paket-Nerds sich dafür interessieren

bibtex-tidy is package-nerd interesting because it brings the expectations of modern code formatters to the old BibTeX file format: deterministic output, pre-commit hooks, stdin/stdout behavior, Docker packaging, and npm/Homebrew/Nix distribution.

It is especially useful for teams that store .bib files in source control and want noisy bibliography diffs reduced to stable, reviewable changes.

### Zeitleiste

- 2017-12-02: Initial public GitHub commit.
- 2020: README media and project docs show an established browser and CLI workflow.
- 2021: v1.8.x changelog entries add a higher-performance parser, type definitions, and a new release process with tags.
- 2023: v1.9.0 adds JabRef-style key generation, Docker configuration, URL-persisted web UI configuration, and a Svelte web UI rewrite.
- 2024: v1.10.0 previews safer v2 CLI semantics for stdin/stdout and file modification.

### Related projects

- BibTeX is the bibliography format that bibtex-tidy parses and rewrites.
- JabRef is referenced by bibtex-tidy's generated-key template support.
- pre-commit is a common integration point for using bibtex-tidy in source-controlled bibliography projects.

### Quellen

- <https://api.github.com/repos/FlamingTempura/bibtex-tidy/commits?per_page=1&page=593>
- <https://github.com/FlamingTempura/bibtex-tidy/blob/master/CHANGELOG.md>
- <https://github.com/FlamingTempura/bibtex-tidy/blob/master/README.md>
- <https://github.com/FlamingTempura/bibtex-tidy/blob/master/package.json>


## Sicherheitshinweise

narrow executable package without higher-risk signals.

- **Geiger-Risiko:** grün / niedrig
- narrow executable package without higher-risk signals

## Details aus der Quelldatenbank

- **Source Database:** Homebrew formula API
- **Tap:** homebrew/core
- **Full Name:** bibtex-tidy
- **Version Scheme:** 0
- **Revision:** 0
- **Bottle Stable Root URL:** <https://ghcr.io/v2/homebrew/core>
- **Deprecated:** no
- **Disabled:** no
- **Keg Only:** no
- **URL Keys:** stable

## Andere Paketmanager-Einträge

- Nix - bibtex-tidy: normalized package name match | nixpkgs package indexes: pkgs/by-name/bi/bibtex-tidy/package.nix from https://api.github.com/repos/NixOS/nixpkgs/git/trees/master?recursive=1


## Verwandte Links

- [Source-control packages](https://www.automicvault.com/de/pkg/source-control-tools/) - Belongs to a source-control command family.
- [Terminal utility packages](https://www.automicvault.com/de/pkg/terminal-utilities/) - Matched terminal and command-line workflow metadata.
- [Text processing packages](https://www.automicvault.com/de/pkg/text-processing-tools/) - Matched text, document, or structured-data processing metadata.
- [Developer build packages](https://www.automicvault.com/de/pkg/developer-build-tools/) - Matched build, compiler, generator, or developer workflow metadata.
- [node](https://www.automicvault.com/de/pkg/brew/node/) - Runtime dependency declared by Homebrew.
- [js-beautify](https://www.automicvault.com/de/pkg/brew/js-beautify/) - Shares av.db curated category or tags: cli, developer-tools, formatter, formatters, javascript.
- [mdformat](https://www.automicvault.com/de/pkg/brew/mdformat/) - Shares av.db curated category or tags: cli, developer-tools, formatter, formatters, pre-commit.
- [oxfmt](https://www.automicvault.com/de/pkg/brew/oxfmt/) - Shares av.db curated category or tags: cli, developer-tools, formatter, formatters, javascript.
- [air](https://www.automicvault.com/de/pkg/brew/air/) - Shares av.db curated category or tags: cli, developer-tools, formatter, formatters.
- [astyle](https://www.automicvault.com/de/pkg/brew/astyle/) - Shares av.db curated category or tags: cli, developer-tools, formatter, formatters.
- [beautysh](https://www.automicvault.com/de/pkg/brew/beautysh/) - Shares av.db curated category or tags: cli, developer-tools, formatter, formatters.
- [buildifier](https://www.automicvault.com/de/pkg/brew/buildifier/) - Shares av.db curated category or tags: cli, developer-tools, formatter, formatters.
- [cbfmt](https://www.automicvault.com/de/pkg/brew/cbfmt/) - Shares av.db curated category or tags: cli, developer-tools, formatter, formatters.

## Combined YAML source

View the package source record on GitHub. [combined/bibtex-tidy.yml](https://github.com/automic-vault/db/blob/main/combined/bibtex-tidy.yml)


## Quellen

- Nucleus package database
- Geiger risk classifier
- package-page enrichment
- curated package history
- package version freshness
- av.db category and tag curation
- package relationship graph
- external package-manager database matches
- cross-ecosystem install command graph
