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Installer grex avec Homebrew, MacPorts, Nix, pacman, zypper, scoop

Consultez les chemins d'installation, exécutables, métadonnées et notes de sécurité de grex pour les workflows d'agents IA.

installation

Commandes d'installation supplémentaires

macOS

Homebrewvérifié · 100%
brew install grex

local Homebrew formula metadata

MacPortsvérifié · 94%
sudo port install grex

MacPorts ports tree · textproc/grex/Portfile · Source: api.github.com

Linux

Nixvérifié · 92%
nix profile install nixpkgs#grex

nixpkgs package indexes · pkgs/by-name/gr/grex/package.nix · Source: api.github.com

Arch Linux pacmanvérifié · 92%
sudo pacman -S grex

Arch Linux sync databases · grex · Source: geo.mirror.pkgbuild.com

openSUSE zyppervérifié · 92%
sudo zypper install grex

openSUSE Tumbleweed package metadata · grex · Source: download.opensuse.org

Windows

Scoopvérifié · 92%
scoop install main/grex

Scoop official bucket manifest trees · bucket/grex.json · Source: api.github.com

aperçu

Résumé du paquet

Command-line tool for generating regular expressions

historique

Historique du projet et usages

grex is a Rust command-line tool and library that generates regular expressions from user-provided test cases. It belongs to the developer-tooling tradition around regex synthesis: not replacing regex knowledge, but giving users a correct starting expression that can be inspected and refined.

Historique du projet

The README states that grex began as a Rust port of Devon Govett's JavaScript regexgen project after regexgen development had apparently ceased. Peter M. Stahl's project kept the regex-generation idea but used Rust's strengths for command-line tooling and expanded the feature set beyond the original port.

Official GitHub releases show public versioned releases starting with v0.1.0 on 2019-10-06, followed by v1.0.0 on 2020-02-02. Later releases added and refined library, CLI, Unicode, packaging, and binding surfaces, while the README presents grex as both a command-line executable and a Rust crate with Python bindings.

Historique d'adoption

grex reached package-manager users through the Rust ecosystem first, with crates.io as the upstream registry path, and through binary/package managers such as Homebrew, MacPorts, Scoop, Chocolatey, Huber, Nix, Arch, and openSUSE as reflected by the README and batch package facts. Its packaging surface is broad because it is a single CLI binary but also a reusable library.

Modes d'utilisation

Users pass examples directly on the command line, from a file, or through a Unix pipeline. By default grex generates a specific expression that matches the supplied test cases; flags can generalize output by converting digits, whitespace, word characters, repeated substrings, anchors, groups, escaping, case sensitivity, verbosity, and colorized display.

The README cautions that generated expressions still need human understanding. That caveat is part of the tool's identity: grex is best used to bootstrap or audit a regex, not to remove the need to understand the target language and engine.

Pourquoi les passionnés de paquets s'y intéressent

grex is package-nerd significant because it packages an algorithmic helper for one of the most common developer annoyances: turning examples into a regular expression. It is also a Rust CLI case study, distributed as source through cargo and as prebuilt binaries or package-manager formulas for users who do not want a Rust toolchain.

Its relationship to regexgen also makes it a small example of ecosystem migration: a JavaScript idea revived as a Rust CLI and library, then exposed through additional language bindings.

Chronologie

  • 2019: v0.1.0 published in the official GitHub release feed.
  • 2020: v1.0.0 published after several 0.x releases.
  • 2021: v1.2.0 and v1.3.0 releases continued the 1.x line.
  • 2022: v1.4.0 and v1.4.1 releases appeared.
  • 2024: v1.4.5 published in the official GitHub release feed.
  • 2025: v1.4.6 published with release assets for several operating-system and CPU targets.

Related projects

  • regexgen is the JavaScript project that grex began by porting.
  • Rust's regex crate is a stated compatibility target for generated expressions.
  • grex-js is the related JavaScript/WebAssembly demo and library surface linked from the repository.
  • crates.io, PyPI, Homebrew, MacPorts, Scoop, Chocolatey, and Huber are distribution surfaces named by upstream or batch package facts.

posture de sécurité

Niveau de risque : vert

narrow executable package without higher-risk signals.

Classificateur de risque

risque vert · confiance faible · appliance

Pourquoi

  • narrow executable package without higher-risk signals

Signaux

  • metadata:no-higher-risk-signals

Comportement d'installation

  • Aucun hook post-install Homebrew n’est enregistré dans les métadonnées de formule.
  • Les métadonnées de bottle Homebrew sont disponibles pour 6 plateformes.
  • Les métadonnées de compilation listent 1 dépendances de compilation.

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exécutables

Exécutables installés

CommandeTypeExpositionNote
grexcliexécutable global

fraîcheur

Version et fraîcheur

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page générée2026-07-10
version du gestionnaire1.4.6
gestionnaire mis à jour2026-06-15
données localesOK
amontà jour
dernière version détectéev1.4.6

https://github.com/pemistahl/grex

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métadonnées d'installation

Métadonnées du paquet

Clé du paquetbrew:grex
Version1.4.6
Gestionnaire de paquetsHomebrew
Page du gestionnaire de paquetshttps://formulae.brew.sh/formula/grex
Page d'accueilhttps://pemistahl.github.io/grex-js/
Dépôthttps://github.com/pemistahl/grex
Docs amonthttps://github.com/pemistahl/grex#readme
LicenceApache-2.0
Archive sourcehttps://github.com/pemistahl/grex/archive/refs/tags/v1.4.6.tar.gz
Dernière mise à jour2026-06-15T10:20:17-04:00
Pulseupdated
Dépendances de compilationrust
Bouteilledisponible (sur arm64_linux, arm64_sequoia, arm64_sonoma, arm64_tahoe, sonoma, x86_64_linux)
post-install Homebrewnon défini
Serviceaucun déclaré

faits du registre

Détails de la base source

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

correspondances dans les bases sources

Autres enregistrements de gestionnaires de paquets

Les correspondances proviennent d’index externes de gestionnaires de paquets et restent séparées des liens de paquets Automic Vault locaux.

Nix95%

grex

nix profile install nixpkgs#grex
  • normalized package name match
  • Correspondance par : Grex
nixpkgs package indexes · api.github.com · nixpkgs package indexes: pkgs/by-name/gr/grex/package.nix from https://api.github.com/repos/NixOS/nixpkgs/git/trees/master?recursive=1
pacman95%

grex 1.4.6-2

A command-line tool for generating regular expressions from user-provided input strings

https://github.com/pemistahl/grex

sudo pacman -S grex
  • License: Apache-2.0
  • Architecture: x86_64
  • 2 Dépendances
  • normalized package name match
  • Correspondance par : Grex
Arch Linux sync databases · geo.mirror.pkgbuild.com · Arch Linux sync databases: grex from https://geo.mirror.pkgbuild.com/extra/os/x86_64/extra.db.tar.gz
zypper95%

grex 1.4.6-1.2

CLI regex generator

https://github.com/pemistahl/grex

sudo zypper install grex
  • License: Apache-2.0 AND MPL-2.0 AND MIT AND (Apache-2.0 OR MIT) AND BSL-1.0 AND Apache-2.0 WITH LLVM-exception
  • Category: Unspecified
  • Architecture: x86_64
  • Source Package: grex
  • 3 Dépendances
  • 2 fournit
  • normalized package name match
  • Correspondance par : Grex
openSUSE Tumbleweed package metadata · download.opensuse.org · openSUSE Tumbleweed package metadata: grex from https://download.opensuse.org/tumbleweed/repo/oss/repodata/be8d3611d25469107f32075a1697e69ec57a2b850b42348a658cc671ad5ec2b50760d02c3e59524d50da9a11d5be799bdaffba2e166e8ca8858512e3c0bd665d-primary.xml.zst
MacPorts95%

grex

sudo port install grex
  • normalized package name match
  • Correspondance par : Grex
MacPorts ports tree · api.github.com · MacPorts ports tree: textproc/grex/Portfile from https://api.github.com/repos/macports/macports-ports/git/trees/master?recursive=1
Scoop95%

main/grex

scoop install main/grex
  • normalized package name match
  • Correspondance par : Grex
Scoop official bucket manifest trees · api.github.com · Scoop official bucket manifest trees: bucket/grex.json from https://api.github.com/repos/ScoopInstaller/Main/git/trees/master?recursive=1

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Généré depuis les données du dépôt

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Sources utilisées

  • 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