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flex

Fast Lexical Analyzer, generates Scanners (tokenizers)

Install it with Homebrew

brew install flex
Latest version
2.6.4
Kind
command-line tool
Installs (last year)
33k
Licence
BSD-2-Clause
Homepage
github.com/westes/flex

Depends on

Rolling flex out to a company Mac fleet

On a managed fleet, installing a command-line tool is a decision rather than a command. EnterpriseBrew puts that decision in one place: who may install flex, which version they land on, and what is recorded when they do.

  • β€’ Approve it for everyone, for one team, or for one person β€” and let developers request it when it isn’t approved yet.
  • β€’ Hold the fleet on the version it has, so an upgrade lands when you decide rather than when upstream ships.
  • β€’ See it checked against the best available vulnerability data before it installs, not after the next scan.
  • β€’ Keep every install in an audit trail: who, which Mac, which version.