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Formula Utilities v8.3.3

Library for command-line editing

When to use

Library for command-line editing. Use readline 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 3M installs over the last year.

Install 1 App in Terminal
$ 
brew install 'readline'
Source: homebrew/core Website Homebrew
Install Statistics 13.6% vs 90d

Install activity across time periods

Metric 30 Days 90 Days 1 Year
Total Installs 242.2K 841.0K 3.0M
Avg Daily Installs 8.1K 9.3K 8.3K

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