Installation

Weitere Installationsbefehle

macOS

Homebrewverifiziert · 100%

brew install cgvg

local Homebrew formula metadata

Linux

Debian aptverifiziert · 92%

sudo apt install cgvg

Debian stable package indexes · cgvg · Quelle: deb.debian.org

Nixverifiziert · 92%

nix profile install nixpkgs#vg

nixpkgs package indexes · pkgs/by-name/vg/vg/package.nix · Quelle: api.github.com

Überblick

Paketzusammenfassung

Command-line source browsing tool

Projektlinks

Befehle und Aliase

cg
vg

Verlauf

Projektgeschichte und Nutzung

CGVG is a small pair of Perl command-line source browsing tools, cg and vg, built around recursive code search and jumping from search results into vi-like editors. Its history is typical of tarball-era Unix developer utilities: a personal workflow tool, released with a static homepage, README, and ChangeLog, then kept useful through occasional maintenance.

Projektgeschichte

Joshua Uziel's README describes CGVG as a quick hack written mostly for his own source-code navigation needs, inspired by cscope but intentionally simpler and not language-specific. The official ChangeLog records an initial 1.0 release on June 8, 1999, followed by rapid 1999 iterations that renamed rg to cg, added vi/vim behavior, colors, manpages, a per-user ~/.cgvgrc file, and Perl-based searching.

Adoptionsgeschichte

CGVG's adoption evidence is modest but real: the 2002 ChangeLog thanks Sergio Talens-Oliag for Debian packaging, and the supplied input records packages in Homebrew, Debian, Ubuntu, and Nix. That makes it a classic niche developer utility whose distribution survived through operating-system package collections rather than a large project ecosystem.

Wie es verwendet wird

The cg command searches source trees and stores numbered matches; vg then opens the selected match in an editor at the recorded file and line. The README positions it as a convenience layer over the find/grep/ctags/cscope family, with persistent logs under ~/.cgvg and per-user display/search defaults in ~/.cgvgrc.

Warum Paket-Nerds sich dafür interessieren

Package nerds care about CGVG because it preserves a pre-GitHub style of Unix tool distribution: a tiny Perl utility, a hand-written homepage, an upstream tarball, and downstream packages that keep an old developer workflow installable. It is also an example of how Homebrew and distribution package sets carry niche tools long after their active release cadence slows.

Zeitleiste

1999: Initial 1.0 release of rg and vg.
1999: rg renamed to cg; ~/.cgvgrc, colors, manpages, and Perl-based search were added across 1.1 through 1.6.0.
2002: Version 1.6.2 thanked Debian packaging work and noted continued personal use despite cscope's open-source release.
2014: Version 1.6.3 modernized the scripts for newer Perl and added Python file support plus .git exclusion.

Related projects

The official README directly relates CGVG to cscope, ctags, etags, find, grep, vi, and vim. Its niche is lighter than cscope and broader than tag-only navigation because it jumps to arbitrary uses as well as definitions.

Quellen

Sicherheitslage

Risikostufe: grün

narrow executable package without higher-risk signals.

Risikoklassifikator

grün Risiko · niedrig Konfidenz · appliance

Warum

narrow executable package without higher-risk signals

Signale

metadata:no-higher-risk-signals

Installationsverhalten

In den Formelmetadaten ist kein Homebrew-Post-install-Hook erfasst.
Homebrew-Bottle-Metadaten sind für 1 Plattformziele verfügbar.

Empfohlene Prüfung

Prüfe vor unbeaufsichtigter Agent-Nutzung, ob das Tool Klartext-Credentials liest, Remote-Zustand schreibt, Artefakte veröffentlicht oder Plugins ausführt.

local files

Configuration and credential file locations

These source-backed paths show where this package keeps local settings or durable credentials. Automic Vault can use them as review targets for secret scanning, migration, and command approval.

Configuration files

Config paths the tool may read or write during local use.

Unix: ~/.cgvgrc

Executables

Installierte Executables

Befehl	Art	Sichtbarkeit	Hinweis
`cg`	cli	globales Executable
`vg`	cli	globales Executable

Aktualität

Version und Aktualität

Diese Signale trennen das Alter der Seitengenerierung, Aktivität des Paketmanagers und Upstream-Release-Vergleich. Versionsrückstand wird nur gemeldet, wenn eine Evidenz-URL und vergleichbare Versionen vorhanden sind.

Seite generiert2026-07-08

Manager-Version1.6.3

Manager aktualisiert

lokale DatenOK

Upstreamnot checked

neueste erkannte Versionnicht erkannt

https://uzix.org/cgvg.html

InfoNo package-manager update timestamp was available.niedrig Konfidenz
InfoRelease/tag comparison is only available for GitHub repositories.https://uzix.org/cgvg.htmlnone Konfidenz

Installationsmetadaten

Paketmetadaten

Paketschlüssel	brew:cgvg
Version	1.6.3
Paketmanager	Homebrew
Paketmanager-Seite	https://formulae.brew.sh/formula/cgvg
Homepage	https://uzix.org/cgvg.html
Upstream-Dokumentation	https://uzix.org/cgvg.html
Lizenz	GPL-2.0-or-later
Quellarchiv	https://uzix.org/cgvg/cgvg-1.6.3.tar.gz
Bottle	verfügbar (auf all)
Homebrew post-install	nicht definiert
Dienst	keiner deklariert

Registry-Fakten

Details aus der Quelldatenbank

Source Database	Homebrew formula API
Tap	homebrew/core
Full Name	cgvg
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

Source-Datenbank-Treffer

Andere Paketmanager-Einträge

Treffer stammen aus externen Paketmanager-Indizes und bleiben von lokalen Automic-Vault-Paketlinks getrennt.

Debian apt95%

cgvg 1.6.3-1

command-line source browsing tool

https://uzix.org/cgvg.html

sudo apt install cgvg

Section: devel
Architecture: all
3 Abhängigkeiten
1 optionale Abhängigkeiten
normalized package name match
Abgeglichen nach: Cgvg

Debian stable package indexes · deb.debian.org · Debian stable package indexes: cgvg from https://deb.debian.org/debian/dists/stable/main/binary-amd64/Packages.xz

Ubuntu apt95%

cgvg 1.6.2-4

command-line source browsing tool

http://linux.ucla.edu/~uzi/cgvg/cgvg-1.6.1.tar.gz

sudo apt install cgvg

Section: universe/devel
Architecture: all
3 Abhängigkeiten
1 optionale Abhängigkeiten
normalized package name match
Abgeglichen nach: Cgvg

Ubuntu 24.04 LTS package indexes · archive.ubuntu.com · Ubuntu 24.04 LTS package indexes: cgvg from https://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/noble/universe/binary-amd64/Packages.gz

Nix92%

vg

nix profile install nixpkgs#vg

installed executable or alias match
Abgeglichen nach: Vg

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

Paketgraph

Links stammen aus dem lokalen Paketbeziehungsgraph, Ergänzungen, Abhängigkeitskanten, Ecosystem-Matches und Paket-Hub-Mitgliedschaft.

Quellspur

Aus Repository-Daten generiert

Diese Seite wird von av-web aus dem privaten Paket-SQLite-Artefakt bereitgestellt, das scripts/generate-pkg-sqlite.py erstellt.

Combined YAML source

View the package source record on GitHub.

combined/cgvg.yml

Verwendete Quellen

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

cgvg mit Homebrew, apt, Nix installieren