fileql mit Homebrew, winget installieren

Projektlinks

• Homepage
• Upstream-Dokumentation
• Paketmanager-Seite

Befehle und Aliase

• fileql

Projektgeschichte

The FileQL repository was created in February 2024. The README describes it as File Query Language and says it lets users run SQL-like queries on local files using the GitQL SDK.

The first tagged release, 0.1.0, was published in February 2024, followed by a short sequence of 0.x releases through 2025.

The README documents a `files` table with columns such as path, parent, extension, is_dir, is_file, and size, plus SQL-like examples such as SELECT, COUNT, DISTINCT, LIKE, and local-file query functions.

Adoptionsgeschichte

FileQL is a newer niche developer tool rather than a broad infrastructure standard. Its adoption evidence is mainly official packaging/install notes from the README, which point to Cargo and winget, plus source_facts package-manager data for Homebrew and winget.

The project is best understood as part of the GitQL family of experiments: applying a familiar SQL-ish query model to developer-local data sources that are normally handled with find, awk, ls, or custom scripts.

Wie es verwendet wird

Users run FileQL with paths supplied via file-selection options and a query supplied on the command line, optionally enabling pagination or choosing render, JSON, or CSV output.

Useful queries include enumerating files, grouping by parent directory, counting children, filtering by extensions, and emitting machine-readable output for further scripting.

Because FileQL is read-oriented and local, its workflow is lightweight: install the CLI, point it at paths, and use SQL-style expressions where shell globbing or ad hoc parsing gets awkward.

Warum Paket-Nerds sich dafür interessieren

FileQL is notable less for scale than for shape: it is a Rust CLI distributed through developer package channels, with no daemon, no config, and no credentials.

It is also a tidy example of a domain-specific query executable where the package name, binary, README examples, and install path are the whole product surface.

Zeitleiste

• 2024-02: Repository created and 0.1.0 release published.
• 2024-03: 0.2.0 release published.
• 2024-08: 0.6.0 and 0.7.0 releases published.
• 2024-11: 0.9.0 release published.
• 2025-02: 0.10.0 release published.

Related projects

• FileQL is built around the GitQL SDK and belongs to the broader family of SQL-like command-line query tools for developer data.
• Adjacent tools include GitQL itself, filesystem search tools, and JSON/CSV-producing command-line utilities.

Quellen

• https://github.com/AmrDeveloper/FileQL
• https://github.com/AmrDeveloper/FileQL/releases/tag/0.1.0
• https://github.com/AmrDeveloper/FileQL/releases/tag/0.10.0
• https://raw.githubusercontent.com/AmrDeveloper/FileQL/master/README.md