filen-cli mit Homebrew, Nix, winget installieren

Projektlinks

• Homepage
• Repository
• Upstream-Dokumentation
• Paketmanager-Seite

Befehle und Aliase

• filen

Projektgeschichte

The public Filen CLI repository was created in 2024 for Windows, macOS, and Linux. Its README describes a toolset for interacting with Filen Drive in stateless or interactive mode, syncing locations, mounting a network drive, and running WebDAV or S3 mirror servers.

The first public GitHub release, v0.0.1, was published in May 2024. Subsequent 0.0.x releases through 2024 iterated quickly on the CLI distribution.

The README now warns that this CLI is being sunset so the team can focus on a Rust rewrite in the filen-rs repository, citing startup performance, download size, and simpler future development as the reasons.

Adoptionsgeschichte

Filen CLI's adoption is tied to Filen users who need automation beyond the desktop and web apps: headless servers, scripted sync jobs, container deployments, and protocol gateways.

Its distribution channels include official GitHub release binaries, a Linux/macOS install script, Docker images, npm, Homebrew, Nix, and winget, giving it a package-manager footprint beyond the Filen app itself.

The sunset notice makes the package historically transitional: useful and packaged, but expected to give way to the Rust CLI once that rewrite becomes the maintained path.

Wie es verwendet wird

Typical usage starts with authentication, producing local credential/auth files, then running commands for sync, drive access, WebDAV, S3, or update management.

Because Filen is encrypted cloud storage, the CLI is especially useful where users want private storage in automated jobs without using a graphical client.

The package exposes a `filen` executable, and the README points users to built-in help with `filen --help <cmd or topic>` plus official hosted CLI documentation.

Warum Paket-Nerds sich dafür interessieren

Filen CLI is interesting to package maintainers because it packages a cloud-storage service client as a cross-platform CLI with release binaries, npm distribution, Docker images, and native package-manager entries.

It also shows a common lifecycle wrinkle: the packaged implementation can be official and useful while upstream already signals the next implementation line, in this case a Rust rewrite.

Zeitleiste

• 2024-04: Public filen-cli repository created.
• 2024-05: v0.0.1 GitHub release published.
• 2024-11: v0.0.20 tag committed in the early release line.
• 2025: Repository activity continues while README points users toward v0.0.36 as a supported CLI release.
• 2025: README announces sunsetting of this CLI in favor of a Rust rewrite under filen-rs.

Related projects

• Filen CLI belongs to the Filen encrypted storage ecosystem and is related to Filen Drive, Filen desktop/mobile clients, WebDAV/S3 gateway workflows, Docker images, and the filen-rs Rust rewrite.
• It occupies a similar operational niche to cloud-storage CLIs such as rclone, but its scope is official access to Filen-specific encrypted storage.

Quellen

• https://github.com/FilenCloudDienste/filen-cli
• https://github.com/FilenCloudDienste/filen-cli/releases
• https://github.com/FilenCloudDienste/filen-rs/tree/main/filen-cli
• https://docs.filen.io/docs/cli
• https://docs.filen.io/docs/cli/authenticating
• https://docs.filen.io/docs/cli/access-filen-drive