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Install align with Homebrew, Nix

Text column alignment filter. Version 1.7.5 via Homebrew; verified from local package data.

Install commandSecurity notes

install

Additional install commands

macOS

Homebrewverified · 100%
brew install align

local Homebrew formula metadata

Linux

Nixverified · 92%
nix profile install nixpkgs#align

nixpkgs package indexes · pkgs/by-name/al/align/package.nix · source: api.github.com

overview

Package summary

Text column alignment filter

Commands and aliases

  • width

history

Project history and usage

align is a small Unix-style text filter by Stephen B. Kinzler for vertically aligning columns in separated text, distributed with the companion width utility.

Project history

The official page dates align to the 2000-2001 copyright period and the bundled width tool to 1993-2001. The page itself is dated December 2001 and advertises align 1.7.5 as a downloadable tarball rather than a public source-control repository.

The implementation is presented as installable Perl scripts: users can put align and width directly on PATH or use the supplied Makefile.

Adoption history

The input package-manager facts show align remains packaged by Homebrew and Nix, but the official project page does not document wider adoption beyond its Unix filter audience.

How it is used

Typical use is in pipelines over logs or tables. With whitespace-separated columns, align can infer separators and print aligned output; options can control input separators, output joiners, and left, right, center, numeric, or zero-padded numeric alignment. The companion width utility reports line widths and longest lines.

Why package nerds care

align is the kind of small, durable command-line filter package managers preserve because it composes with pipes and solves a narrow formatting job without a larger table-processing dependency.

Timeline

  • 1993: width companion utility copyright period begins.
  • 2000-2001: align copyright period.
  • 2001: Official page dated December 2001 advertises align 1.7.5.

Related projects

  • width: bundled companion utility for measuring printable line width.

Sources

  • Official align homepage: https://kinzler.com/me/align
  • source_facts.package-manager

security posture

Risk level: green

narrow executable package without higher-risk signals.

Risk classifier

green risk · low confidence · appliance

Why

  • narrow executable package without higher-risk signals

Signals

  • metadata:no-higher-risk-signals

Install behavior

  • No Homebrew post-install hook is recorded in formula metadata.
  • Homebrew bottle metadata is available for 1 platform targets.

Recommended review

Before unattended agent use, check whether the tool reads plaintext credentials, writes remote state, publishes artifacts, or shells out to plugins.

executables

Installed executables

CommandKindExposureNote
widthcliglobal executable

freshness

Version and freshness

These signals separate page generation age, package-manager activity, and upstream release comparison. Version lag is warned only when an evidence URL and comparable versions are present.

page generated2026-07-08
manager version1.7.5
manager updated
local dataok
upstreamnot checked
latest detectednot detected

https://kinzler.com/me/align/

  • infoNo package-manager update timestamp was available.low confidence
  • infoRelease/tag comparison is only available for GitHub repositories.https://kinzler.com/me/align/none confidence

install metadata

Package metadata

Package keybrew:align
Version1.7.5
Package managerHomebrew
Package manager pagehttps://formulae.brew.sh/formula/align
Homepagehttps://kinzler.com/me/align/
Upstream docshttps://kinzler.com/me/align
LicenseGPL-2.0-or-later
Source archivehttps://kinzler.com/me/align/align-1.7.5.tgz
Bottleavailable (on all)
Homebrew post-installnot defined
Servicenone declared

registry facts

Source database details

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

source database matches

Other package-manager records

Matches are pulled from external package-manager indexes and kept separate from local Automic Vault package links.

Nix95%

align

nix profile install nixpkgs#align
  • normalized package name match
  • Matched by: Align
nixpkgs package indexes · api.github.com · nixpkgs package indexes: pkgs/by-name/al/align/package.nix from https://api.github.com/repos/NixOS/nixpkgs/git/trees/master?recursive=1

package graph

Links come from deterministic package relationships, av.db category and tag curation, ecosystem matches, and package hub membership.

Same workflow

  • titlecaseShares av.db curated category or tags: cli, developer-tools, formatting, text-processing.
  • bsdconvShares av.db curated category or tags: cli, developer-tools, text-processing.
  • cconvShares av.db curated category or tags: cli, developer-tools, text-processing.
  • cmigemoShares av.db curated category or tags: cli, developer-tools, text-processing.
  • decasifyShares av.db curated category or tags: cli, developer-tools, text-processing.
  • desedShares av.db curated category or tags: cli, developer-tools, text-processing.

source trail

Generated from repository data

This page is generated by av-web from the private package SQLite artifact built by scripts/generate-pkg-sqlite.py.

Used sources

  • 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