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ouch for Mac

Painless compression and decompression for your terminal

Quick answer: ouch is a terminal emulator for macOS. Install it with brew install ouch. It is distributed under the MIT licence. It has 473 Homebrew installs in the last 30 days.

What ouch is

ouch is a terminal emulator for macOS: painless compression and decompression for your terminal.

It is distributed as a Homebrew formula, which builds or pours a binary and puts it on your PATH. The project is open source and lives at https://github.com/ouch-org/ouch.

How to install ouch

  1. Open Terminal (press ⌘ + Space and type “Terminal”).
  2. If Homebrew is not installed yet, run the installer below once.
  3. Run brew install ouch.

Homebrew installer, if you need it:

Prefer a graphical installer? Download it from the official site. MacPicks never hosts or mirrors binaries — the Homebrew command always pulls from the vendor's own release.

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Frequently asked questions

How do I install ouch on Mac?

Run brew install ouch in Terminal. This requires Homebrew; if you do not have it, install it first with the command below.

Is ouch open source?

Yes — Homebrew distributes it under the MIT licence.

Does ouch run on Apple silicon?

Homebrew publishes this formula for macOS. If upstream does not ship an Apple silicon build, Rosetta 2 handles the Intel binary.

How popular is ouch?

It was installed 473 times in the last 30 days according to Homebrew analytics, ranking #1582 in this catalogue.

What version of ouch is current?

The latest packaged version is 0.8.3.