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Ashutosh Kumar Sinha
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Homebrew Cheatsheet

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Homebrew

The Missing Package Manager for macOS (or Linux)

Brew Documentation - https://docs.brew.sh

Pre-requisite

First we need to install XCode command line tools, this we can do by opening a terminal and executing below command:

xcode-select --install
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Installing Homebrew

We can now install the homebrew by opening a terminal and executing below command:

/bin/bash -c "$(curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Homebrew/install/HEAD/install.sh)"
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Verifying Homebrew Install 

brew doctor
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Listing Homebrew Commands 

brew commands
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Homebrew Help 

brew help [COMMAND]
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List installed Formulas 

brew list
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Search for a Formula 

brew search tree
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Describe a Formula 

brew desc tree
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Install a Formula 

brew install tree
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Show Detail Information on a Formula 

brew info tree
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Show a Installed Formula's Dependencies 

brew deps tree
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Show the homepage of an Formula 

brew home tree
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Upgrade a Particular Formula 

brew upgrade tree
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Uninstall a Formula 

brew uninstall tree
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Clean Old Formulas 

brew cleanup
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Search for a Cask 

brew cask search visual-studio-code
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Installing Desktop/GUI Application 

brew cask install visual-studio-code
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Uninstalling Desktop/GUI Application 

brew cask uninstall visual-studio-code
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Update Homebrew Catalog 

brew update
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Upgrade Homebrew 

brew upgrade
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Uninstall Homebrew

We can uninstall the homebrew by opening a terminal and executing below command:

/bin/bash -c "$(curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Homebrew/install/master/uninstall.sh)"
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GUI Search Options

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  • Put the name of the application you are searching for in the search field, for example here we will write tree, as you type it will search and show results in a pop up

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  • Select the name of the application in the pop up for example here we will select tree which will show further details about tree like description, brew command to install it, its homepage, license and version information etc.

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