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topfew mit Homebrew, MacPorts, Nix installieren

Prüfe Installationswege, Executables, Metadaten und Sicherheitshinweise für topfew in AI-Agent-Workflows.

Installation

Weitere Installationsbefehle

macOS

Homebrewverifiziert · 100%
brew install topfew

local Homebrew formula metadata

MacPortsverifiziert · 94%
sudo port install topfew

MacPorts ports tree · textproc/topfew/Portfile · Quelle: api.github.com

Linux

Nixverifiziert · 92%
nix profile install nixpkgs#topfew

nixpkgs package indexes · pkgs/by-name/to/topfew/package.nix · Quelle: api.github.com

Überblick

Paketzusammenfassung

Finds the field values which appear most often in a stream of records

Befehle und Aliase

  • topfew

Verlauf

Projektgeschichte und Nutzung

topfew is a Go command-line utility for finding the most frequent records or field combinations in text streams and files. It packages a familiar Unix analysis pattern into a faster, purpose-built binary.

Projektgeschichte

Tim Bray created Topfew as a utility for counting common values in streams of records, with the README crediting his version 0.1 and later work toward 1.0 to ideas from Dirkjan Ochtman and Simon Fell. The project reached a documented 1.0 release in April 2024, and the current README describes release 2.0.

The design is explicitly close to traditional shell composition: the README states that its result can be duplicated with awk, grep, sed, sort, uniq, and head, but argues that Topfew is for cases where performance matters on large inputs. The examples are package-nerd friendly: Apache logs, quoted fields, grep/vgrep filters, sed-style cleanups, and multi-threaded file processing.

Adoptionsgeschichte

topfew is niche but packaged beyond its source repository. The input package metadata lists Homebrew, MacPorts, and Nix package names, matching its role as a small single-purpose CLI that is useful enough to show up in Unix package collections.

Wie es verwendet wird

The basic form is `topfew --fields 1 access_log`, which finds the most common first field in an Apache log. More advanced use combines field selection, regex separators, grep and inverse-grep filters, sed-style transformations, quoted-field parsing, output limits, and worker counts.

Warum Paket-Nerds sich dafür interessieren

topfew matters to package nerds because it is a performance-oriented replacement for a shell pipeline they already know. It is the sort of small binary people install from Homebrew or Nix when a log-analysis one-liner becomes too slow or too hard to repeat.

Zeitleiste

  • 2020: Author blog posts describe Topfew as a small utility replacing the `sort | uniq -c | sort -rn | head` pattern.
  • 2024: Tim Bray announced Topfew 1.0.
  • Current: README describes release 2.0 and documents Homebrew-friendly CLI usage.

Related projects

  • awk, grep, sed, sort, uniq, head, Apache httpd logs, Go runtime.

Sicherheitslage

Risikostufe: blue

broad file, network, media, or database tool signal.

Risikoklassifikator

blue Risiko · mittel Konfidenz · tool

Warum

  • broad file, network, media, or database tool signal

Signale

  • text:stream,record

Installationsverhalten

  • In den Formelmetadaten ist kein Homebrew-Post-install-Hook erfasst.
  • Homebrew-Bottle-Metadaten sind für 10 Plattformziele verfügbar.
  • Build-Metadaten listen 1 Build-Abhängigkeiten.

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Executables

Installierte Executables

BefehlArtSichtbarkeitHinweis
topfewcliglobales Executable

Aktualität

Version und Aktualität

Diese Signale trennen das Alter der Seitengenerierung, Aktivität des Paketmanagers und Upstream-Release-Vergleich. Versionsrückstand wird nur gemeldet, wenn eine Evidenz-URL und vergleichbare Versionen vorhanden sind.

Seite generiert2026-07-25
Manager-Version2.0.0
Manager aktualisiert
lokale DatenOK
Upstreamaktuell
neueste erkannte Versionv2.0.0

https://github.com/timbray/topfew

  • InfoNo package-manager update timestamp was available.niedrig Konfidenz

Installationsmetadaten

Paketmetadaten

Paketschlüsselbrew:topfew
Version2.0.0
PaketmanagerHomebrew
Paketmanager-Seitehttps://formulae.brew.sh/formula/topfew
Homepagehttps://github.com/timbray/topfew
Repositoryhttps://github.com/timbray/topfew
Upstream-Dokumentationhttps://github.com/timbray/topfew#readme
LizenzGPL-3.0-or-later
Quellarchivhttps://github.com/timbray/topfew/archive/refs/tags/v2.0.0.tar.gz
Build-Abhängigkeitengo
Bottleverfügbar (auf arm64_linux, arm64_monterey, arm64_sequoia, arm64_sonoma, arm64_tahoe, arm64_ventura, 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 Nametopfew
Version Scheme0
Revision0
Bottle Stable Root URLhttps://ghcr.io/v2/homebrew/core
Deprecatedno
Disabledno
Keg Onlyno
URL Keys
  • stable

Source-Datenbank-Treffer

Andere Paketmanager-Einträge

Treffer stammen aus externen Paketmanager-Indizes und bleiben von lokalen Automic-Vault-Paketlinks getrennt.

Nix95%

topfew

nix profile install nixpkgs#topfew
  • normalized package name match
  • Abgeglichen nach: Topfew
nixpkgs package indexes · api.github.com · nixpkgs package indexes: pkgs/by-name/to/topfew/package.nix from https://api.github.com/repos/NixOS/nixpkgs/git/trees/master?recursive=1
MacPorts95%

topfew

sudo port install topfew
  • normalized package name match
  • Abgeglichen nach: Topfew
MacPorts ports tree · api.github.com · MacPorts ports tree: textproc/topfew/Portfile from https://api.github.com/repos/macports/macports-ports/git/trees/master?recursive=1

Quellspur

Aus Repository-Daten generiert

Diese Seite wird von av-web aus dem privaten Paket-SQLite-Artefakt bereitgestellt, das scripts/generate-pkg-sqlite.py erstellt.

Verwendete Quellen

  • Geiger risk classifier
  • Nucleus package database
  • av.db category and tag curation
  • cross-ecosystem install command graph
  • curated package history
  • external package-manager database matches
  • package relationship graph
  • package version freshness
  • package-page enrichment