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Install faketty with Homebrew, Nix

Wrapper to exec a command in a pty, even if redirecting the output. Version 1.0.20 via Homebrew; verified from local package data.

Install commandSecurity notes

install

Additional install commands

macOS

Homebrewverified · 100%
brew install faketty

local Homebrew formula metadata

Linux

Nixverified · 92%
nix profile install nixpkgs#faketty

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

overview

Package summary

Wrapper to exec a command in a pty, even if redirecting the output

Commands and aliases

  • faketty

history

Project history and usage

faketty is a Rust command wrapper that runs another command inside a pseudoterminal even when stdout or stderr are redirected.

Project history

The GitHub repository was created in September 2020. Its README frames the tool as similar to script(1), but with a key difference: faketty preserves distinct stdout and stderr streams instead of merging output through a single pty.

Adoption history

faketty is distributed through Cargo and packaged by Homebrew and Nix according to the input metadata. That makes it a small developer-tool package for build logs, CI scripts, and command wrappers that need terminal-style output without losing stream separation.

How it is used

The documented example wraps a build command such as bazel build while redirecting stdout and stderr to separate log files. This keeps programs that detect terminals from disabling colors, progress bars, or other tty-dependent behavior.

Why package nerds care

faketty is a concise packaging target because it solves one Unix tooling edge case cleanly: preserve terminal behavior for the child process while keeping stdout and stderr demultiplexed for logs.

Timeline

  • 2020-09: The GitHub repository is created.
  • 2026-01: Version 1.0.20 is published on GitHub releases.

Related projects

  • faketty is explicitly related to script(1) and Unix pseudoterminal tooling, but exists for the separate-stream logging case that script(1) does not cover.

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 6 platform targets.
  • Build metadata lists 1 build dependencies.

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
fakettycliglobal 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 version1.0.20
manager updated
local dataok
upstreamcurrent
latest detected1.0.20

https://github.com/dtolnay/faketty

  • infoNo package-manager update timestamp was available.low confidence

install metadata

Package metadata

Package keybrew:faketty
Version1.0.20
Package managerHomebrew
Package manager pagehttps://formulae.brew.sh/formula/faketty
Homepagehttps://github.com/dtolnay/faketty
Repositoryhttps://github.com/dtolnay/faketty
Upstream docshttps://github.com/dtolnay/faketty#readme
LicenseApache-2.0 OR MIT
Source archivehttps://github.com/dtolnay/faketty/archive/refs/tags/1.0.20.tar.gz
Build dependenciesrust
Bottleavailable (on arm64_linux, arm64_sequoia, arm64_sonoma, arm64_tahoe, sonoma, x86_64_linux)
Homebrew post-installnot defined
Servicenone declared

registry facts

Source database details

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

faketty

nix profile install nixpkgs#faketty
  • normalized package name match
  • Matched by: Faketty
nixpkgs package indexes · api.github.com · nixpkgs package indexes: pkgs/by-name/fa/faketty/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.

Related tools

  • rustBuild dependency declared by Homebrew.

Same workflow

  • ahaShares av.db curated category or tags: cli, developer-tools, terminal.
  • amttermShares av.db curated category or tags: cli, developer-tools, terminal.
  • ansifilterShares av.db curated category or tags: cli, developer-tools, terminal.
  • ccatShares av.db curated category or tags: cli, developer-tools, terminal.
  • cliveShares av.db curated category or tags: cli, developer-tools, terminal.
  • colordiffShares av.db curated category or tags: cli, developer-tools, terminal.

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