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Installation

Weitere Installationsbefehle

macOS

Homebrewverifiziert · 100%
brew install envv

local Homebrew formula metadata

Überblick

Paketzusammenfassung

Shell-independent handling of environment variables

Befehle und Aliase

  • envv

Verlauf

Projektgeschichte und Nutzung

envv is a small C utility for generating shell-specific commands that set environment variables and edit colon-separated paths. Its niche is old-school Unix software setup: one script can be sourced by users of csh, tcsh, bash, sh, ksh, and zsh without hard-coding separate initialization logic for each shell.

Projektgeschichte

The README traces envv back to David F. Skoll of Roaring Penguin Software, with version 1.0 dated February 8, 1994. Early releases added zsh recognition, a `choose` directive, local variables, stdin directives, and fixes around path comparison and environment persistence.

The GitHub-hosted copy records a later 2011 license change to MIT and a segmentation fault fix, but otherwise presents envv as a deliberately small utility: build with `make`, copy the `envv` executable into a system directory, and consult the bundled `envv.1` manual page.

Adoptionsgeschichte

envv never became a broad ecosystem package, but its continued packaging in Homebrew keeps a 1990s Unix environment-management tool installable on modern developer machines. The README's example is aimed at commercial or site-local software that needs PATH entries and home variables set consistently for many user shells.

Wie es verwendet wird

A typical envv setup script evaluates commands such as `envv add PATH /usr/local/foobar/bin` and `envv set FOOHOME /usr/local/foobar`. Users source that script from their preferred shell, allowing system-wide software moves without each user editing `.cshrc`, `.profile`, or similar files by hand.

Warum Paket-Nerds sich dafür interessieren

envv is interesting as a compact survivor from the era when Unix shops had to support several interactive shells at once. For package-manager history, it is a reminder that environment setup before modules, direnv, and modern shell frameworks often meant tiny C tools that printed shell code.

Zeitleiste

  • 1994-02-08: Version 1.0 first released.
  • 1994-03-22: Version 1.1 added zsh recognition and the `choose` directive.
  • 1994-04-18: Version 1.2 added local variables, command-line options, and stdin directives.
  • 1995-07-11: Version 1.6 fixed path comparison behavior.
  • 2011-07-14: Version 1.7 changed the license to MIT and fixed a segmentation fault.

Related projects

  • envv overlaps conceptually with shell profile snippets, environment modules, and later per-directory environment tools, but it solves a narrower problem by emitting commands for multiple shells.

Sicherheitslage

Risikostufe: yellow

generalized runtime or code generation signal.

Risikoklassifikator

yellow Risiko · mittel Konfidenz · runtime

Warum

  • generalized runtime or code generation signal

Signale

  • text:shell

Installationsverhalten

  • In den Formelmetadaten ist kein Homebrew-Post-install-Hook erfasst.
  • Homebrew-Bottle-Metadaten sind für 13 Plattformziele verfügbar.

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Executables

Installierte Executables

BefehlArtSichtbarkeitHinweis
envvcliglobales Executable

Aktualität

Version und Aktualität

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Seite generiert2026-07-25
Manager-Version1.7
Manager aktualisiert2026-07-10
lokale DatenOK
Upstreamaktuell
neueste erkannte Versionv1.7

https://github.com/jakewendt/envv

  • OKEs wurden keine Aktualitätswarnungen generiert.

Installationsmetadaten

Paketmetadaten

Paketschlüsselbrew:envv
Version1.7
PaketmanagerHomebrew
Paketmanager-Seitehttps://formulae.brew.sh/formula/envv
Homepagehttps://github.com/jakewendt/envv
Repositoryhttps://github.com/jakewendt/envv
Upstream-Dokumentationhttps://github.com/jakewendt/envv#readme
LizenzMIT
Quellarchivhttps://github.com/jakewendt/envv/archive/refs/tags/v1.7.tar.gz
Zuletzt aktualisiert2026-07-10T19:51:01-04:00
Pulseupdated
Bottleverfügbar (auf arm64_big_sur, arm64_linux, arm64_monterey, arm64_sequoia, arm64_sonoma, arm64_tahoe, arm64_ventura, big_sur, catalina, monterey, sonoma, ventura, x86_64_linux)
Homebrew post-installnicht definiert
Dienstkeiner deklariert

Registry-Fakten

Details aus der Quelldatenbank

Source DatabaseHomebrew formula API
Taphomebrew/core
Full Nameenvv
Version Scheme0
Revision0
Bottle Stable Root URLhttps://ghcr.io/v2/homebrew/core
Deprecatedno
Disabledno
Keg Onlyno
URL Keys
  • stable

Quellspur

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