# cgvg mit Homebrew, apt, Nix installieren Prüfe Installationswege, Executables, Metadaten und Sicherheitshinweise für cgvg in AI-Agent-Workflows. ## Installation ```sh sudo av install brew:cgvg ``` Weitere Installationsbefehle: ### macOS - Homebrew (100%): ```sh brew install cgvg ``` Evidenz: local Homebrew formula metadata ### Linux - Debian apt (92%): ```sh sudo apt install cgvg ``` Evidenz: Debian stable package indexes: cgvg from https://deb.debian.org/debian/dists/stable/main/binary-amd64/Packages.xz - Nix (92%): ```sh nix profile install nixpkgs#vg ``` Evidenz: nixpkgs package indexes: pkgs/by-name/vg/vg/package.nix from https://api.github.com/repos/NixOS/nixpkgs/git/trees/master?recursive=1 ## Paketfakten - **Paketschlüssel:** brew:cgvg - **Paketmanager:** Homebrew - **Paketmanager-Seite:** - **Version:** 1.6.3 - **Quellzusammenfassung:** Command-line source browsing tool - **Homepage:** - **Upstream-Dokumentation:** - **Lizenz:** GPL-2.0-or-later - **Quellarchiv:** - **Generiert:** 2026-07-08T07:18:31+00:00 ## Executables - cg (cli) - vg (cli) - cg (Alias) - vg (Alias) ## Installationsverhalten - Post-install-Hook: nicht definiert - Bottle: verfügbar auf all ## Version und Aktualität - Seite generiert: 2026-07-08 - Manager-Version: 1.6.3 - lokale Daten: OK - Upstream-Repository: https://uzix.org/cgvg.html - Info: No package-manager update timestamp was available. - Info: Release/tag comparison is only available for GitHub repositories. ## 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 - - - ## Sicherheitshinweise narrow executable package without higher-risk signals. - **Geiger-Risiko:** grün / niedrig - narrow executable package without higher-risk signals ## 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 - Unix: ~/.cgvgrc ## Details aus der Quelldatenbank - **Source Database:** Homebrew formula API - **Tap:** homebrew/core - **Full Name:** cgvg - **Version Scheme:** 0 - **Revision:** 0 - **Bottle Stable Root URL:** - **Deprecated:** no - **Disabled:** no - **Keg Only:** no - **URL Keys:** stable ## Andere Paketmanager-Einträge - Debian apt - cgvg - 1.6.3-1: normalized package name match | Debian stable package indexes: cgvg from https://deb.debian.org/debian/dists/stable/main/binary-amd64/Packages.xz | command-line source browsing tool | https://uzix.org/cgvg.html - Ubuntu apt - cgvg - 1.6.2-4: normalized package name match | Ubuntu 24.04 LTS package indexes: cgvg from https://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/noble/universe/binary-amd64/Packages.gz | command-line source browsing tool | http://linux.ucla.edu/~uzi/cgvg/cgvg-1.6.1.tar.gz - Nix - vg: installed executable or alias match | nixpkgs package indexes: pkgs/by-name/vg/vg/package.nix from https://api.github.com/repos/NixOS/nixpkgs/git/trees/master?recursive=1 ## Verwandte Links - [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. - [Networking and protocol packages](https://www.automicvault.com/de/pkg/networking-protocol-tools/) - Matched network, protocol, or remote-service metadata. - [cgrep](https://www.automicvault.com/de/pkg/brew/cgrep/) - Shares av.db curated category or tags: cli, code-search, developer-tools, grep, search. - [jvgrep](https://www.automicvault.com/de/pkg/brew/jvgrep/) - Shares av.db curated category or tags: cli, developer-tools, grep, search, vim. - [comby](https://www.automicvault.com/de/pkg/brew/comby/) - Shares av.db curated category or tags: cli, code-search, developer-tools, search. - [fzy](https://www.automicvault.com/de/pkg/brew/fzy/) - Shares av.db curated category or tags: cli, developer-tools, search, vim. - [hgrep](https://www.automicvault.com/de/pkg/brew/hgrep/) - Shares av.db curated category or tags: cli, developer-tools, grep, search. - [igrep](https://www.automicvault.com/de/pkg/brew/igrep/) - Shares av.db curated category or tags: cli, developer-tools, grep, search. - [ripgrep](https://www.automicvault.com/de/pkg/brew/ripgrep/) - Shares av.db curated category or tags: cli, developer-tools, grep, search. - [sift](https://www.automicvault.com/de/pkg/brew/sift/) - Shares av.db curated category or tags: cli, developer-tools, grep, search. - [codequery](https://www.automicvault.com/de/pkg/brew/codequery/) - Local package facts share a topical domain. Shared terms: browsing, cli, code, code-browsing, code-search. ## Combined YAML source View the package source record on GitHub. [combined/cgvg.yml](https://github.com/automic-vault/db/blob/main/combined/cgvg.yml) ## Quellen - Nucleus package database - Geiger risk classifier - package-page enrichment - curated configuration and credential file locations - 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