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Install halp with Homebrew, apk, Nix, pacman

CLI tool to get help with CLI tools. Version 0.2.0 via Homebrew; verified from local package data.

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Additional install commands

macOS

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brew install halp

local Homebrew formula metadata

overview

Package summary

CLI tool to get help with CLI tools

Commands and aliases

  • halp

history

Project history and usage

halp is a Rust command-line helper for discovering how another command exposes help and version information. It sits in the small but useful package-manager niche of tools that smooth over inconsistent CLI conventions.

Project history

The project is maintained by Orhun Parmaksiz and documents itself as a CLI tool for getting help with CLI tools. Its copyright notice covers 2023-2024, and the repository and project site present the same core idea: try common help and version flags, then offer a `plz` mode for manual pages or cheat sheets.

Adoption history

halp is distributed as a Rust crate, source build, binary release, Docker image, Arch package, and Homebrew formula. That spread is modest, but it is enough to make the tool available through common developer package paths without needing a custom install script.

How it is used

The default workflow is `halp <command>`, which probes common help and version arguments such as `-h`, `--help`, `-v`, and `--version`. The `plz` subcommand opens local manual pages or cheat.sh, and the documented configuration file lets users tune the checked arguments and helper commands.

Why package nerds care

halp is interesting to package nerds because it codifies a real CLI ecosystem wart: help and version flags are conventional, not universal. Packaging it gives shell users a tiny compatibility shim across arbitrary commands, especially on minimal systems where shell completions or richer docs may not be installed.

Timeline

  • 2023-2024: Project copyright range documented by the official site.
  • 2024: Project documentation describes Cargo, Arch, Docker, binary-release, and source-build installation paths.

Related projects

  • The project delegates deeper help to Unix manual pages and cheat.sh, positioning itself as a dispatcher rather than a replacement for those documentation systems.

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 10 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
halpcliglobal 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 version0.2.0
manager updated
local dataok
upstreamcurrent
latest detectedv0.2.0

https://github.com/orhun/halp

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

install metadata

Package metadata

Package keybrew:halp
Version0.2.0
Package managerHomebrew
Package manager pagehttps://formulae.brew.sh/formula/halp
Homepagehttps://halp.cli.rs/
Repositoryhttps://github.com/orhun/halp
Upstream docshttps://github.com/orhun/halp#readme
LicenseApache-2.0 OR MIT
Source archivehttps://github.com/orhun/halp/archive/refs/tags/v0.2.0.tar.gz
Build dependenciesrust
Bottleavailable (on arm64_linux, arm64_monterey, arm64_sequoia, arm64_sonoma, arm64_tahoe, arm64_ventura, monterey, sonoma, ventura, x86_64_linux)
Homebrew post-installnot defined
Servicenone declared

registry facts

Source database details

Source DatabaseHomebrew formula API
Taphomebrew/core
Full Namehalp
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%

halp

nix profile install nixpkgs#halp
  • normalized package name match
  • Matched by: Halp
nixpkgs package indexes · api.github.com · nixpkgs package indexes: pkgs/by-name/ha/halp/package.nix from https://api.github.com/repos/NixOS/nixpkgs/git/trees/master?recursive=1
apk95%

halp 0.2.0-r0

A CLI tool to get help with CLI tools

https://github.com/orhun/halp

sudo apk add halp
  • License: MIT OR Apache-2.0
  • Architecture: x86_64
  • Source Package: halp
  • 1 dependencies
  • 1 provides
  • normalized package name match
  • Matched by: Halp
Alpine Linux edge package indexes · dl-cdn.alpinelinux.org · Alpine Linux edge package indexes: halp from https://dl-cdn.alpinelinux.org/alpine/edge/testing/x86_64/APKINDEX.tar.gz
apk95%

halp-bash-completion 0.2.0-r0

Bash completions for halp

https://github.com/orhun/halp

sudo apk add halp-bash-completion
  • License: MIT OR Apache-2.0
  • Architecture: x86_64
  • Source Package: halp
  • normalized package name match
  • Matched by: Halp
Alpine Linux edge package indexes · dl-cdn.alpinelinux.org · Alpine Linux edge package indexes: halp-bash-completion from https://dl-cdn.alpinelinux.org/alpine/edge/testing/x86_64/APKINDEX.tar.gz
apk95%

halp-doc 0.2.0-r0

A CLI tool to get help with CLI tools (documentation)

https://github.com/orhun/halp

sudo apk add halp-doc
  • License: MIT OR Apache-2.0
  • Architecture: x86_64
  • Source Package: halp
  • normalized package name match
  • Matched by: Halp
Alpine Linux edge package indexes · dl-cdn.alpinelinux.org · Alpine Linux edge package indexes: halp-doc from https://dl-cdn.alpinelinux.org/alpine/edge/testing/x86_64/APKINDEX.tar.gz
apk95%

halp-fish-completion 0.2.0-r0

Fish completions for halp

https://github.com/orhun/halp

sudo apk add halp-fish-completion
  • License: MIT OR Apache-2.0
  • Architecture: x86_64
  • Source Package: halp
  • normalized package name match
  • Matched by: Halp
Alpine Linux edge package indexes · dl-cdn.alpinelinux.org · Alpine Linux edge package indexes: halp-fish-completion from https://dl-cdn.alpinelinux.org/alpine/edge/testing/x86_64/APKINDEX.tar.gz
apk95%

halp-zsh-completion 0.2.0-r0

Zsh completions for halp

https://github.com/orhun/halp

sudo apk add halp-zsh-completion
  • License: MIT OR Apache-2.0
  • Architecture: x86_64
  • Source Package: halp
  • normalized package name match
  • Matched by: Halp
Alpine Linux edge package indexes · dl-cdn.alpinelinux.org · Alpine Linux edge package indexes: halp-zsh-completion from https://dl-cdn.alpinelinux.org/alpine/edge/testing/x86_64/APKINDEX.tar.gz
pacman95%

halp 0.2.0-2

A CLI tool to get help with CLI tools

https://github.com/orhun/halp

sudo pacman -S halp
  • License: MIT AND Apache-2.0
  • Architecture: x86_64
  • 2 dependencies
  • normalized package name match
  • Matched by: Halp
Arch Linux sync databases · geo.mirror.pkgbuild.com · Arch Linux sync databases: halp from https://geo.mirror.pkgbuild.com/extra/os/x86_64/extra.db.tar.gz

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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