megacmd mit Homebrew, apk, Nix, scoop installieren

Projektlinks

• Homepage
• Paketmanager-Seite

Befehle und Aliase

• megacmd

Projektgeschichte

The project emerged during the early Mega.co.nz era, when Mega offered a web interface but relatively few Unix-style command-line clients. The README links its design to go-mega and compares its transfer-oriented workflow to s3cmd, positioning megacmd as a familiar CLI layer over a cloud-storage API.

Maintenance later slowed. The upstream README states that the project is no longer fully maintained, with light maintenance focused mostly on the underlying go-mega library, which is also used for Mega support in rclone.

Adoptionsgeschichte

megacmd remained a small but packaged utility rather than a large ecosystem project. The supplied package facts list packages in Homebrew, Nix, Scoop, and Alpine, showing that it was kept useful enough for package managers even after upstream maintenance became light.

Wie es verwendet wird

Typical usage centers on scripted file transfer to and from Mega paths such as mega:/foo/bar. The README documents put, get, list, delete, mkdir, move, and sync operations, plus parallel upload and download workers configured in ~/.megacmd.json.

Because ~/.megacmd.json stores the Mega username and password alongside transfer settings, package users should treat the file as both configuration and credential material.

Warum Paket-Nerds sich dafür interessieren

For package maintainers, megacmd is interesting as an early third-party Mega CLI written in Go, with vendored protocol/client code and a small release history. It also illustrates the packaging problem of cloud-service CLIs whose upstream API can change while the client itself is only lightly maintained.

Zeitleiste

• 2013: README examples and the linked protocol blog place early megacmd usage in the first wave of Mega command-line tooling.
• 2019: GitHub lists release 0.016 as the latest release.
• Later: Upstream README notes the project is no longer fully maintained.

Related projects

• go-mega: the Go Mega client library used underneath megacmd.
• rclone: the upstream README notes Mega work in go-mega is also used for rclone's Mega backend.
• Megatools: another independent command-line suite for Mega.nz.

Quellen

• https://github.com/t3rm1n4l/megacmd
• https://github.com/t3rm1n4l/megacmd/releases
• source_facts.package-manager-url