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ncurses

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Formula Utilities v6.6

Text-based UI library

When to use

Text-based UI library. Use ncurses when you want a widely used utilities command-line package that can be installed and updated through Homebrew. It is one of FastBrew's top packages by Homebrew installs, with about 1.6M installs over the last year.

Install 1 App in Terminal
$ 
brew install ncurses
Source: homebrew/core Website Homebrew

Official Homebrew Stats

Install activity metrics for ncurses.

-8.5% vs 90d avg
30 Days
116.3K total installs
3.9K installs / day avg
90 Days
381.2K total installs
4.2K installs / day avg
1 Year
1.6M total installs
4.3K installs / day avg

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