Subcommands43 subcommands
brew list
List all installed formulae
brew ls
List all installed formulae
brew leaves
List installed formulae that are not dependencies of another installed formula
brew doctor
Check your system for potential problems
brew abv
Display brief statistics for your Homebrew installation
brew update
Fetch the newest version of Homebrew and all formulae
brew outdated
List installed casks and formulae that have an updated version available
brew pin
Pin formula, preventing them from being upgraded
brew unpin
Unpin formula, allowing them to be upgraded
brew upgrade
Upgrade outdated casks and outdated, unpinned formulae using the same options they were originally installed with, plus any appended brew formula options
brew search
Perform a substring search of cask tokens and formula names
brew config
Show Homebrew and system configuration info
brew postinstall
Rerun the post install step for formula
brew install
Install <formula>
brew reinstall
Uninstall and then reinstall a formula or cask using the same options it was originally installed with, plus any appended options specific to a formula
brew uninstall
Uninstall a formula or cask
brew --prefix
Prefix of <formula>
brew cask
Homebrew Cask provides a friendly CLI workflow for the administration of macOS applications distributed as binaries
brew cask install
Installs the given cask
brew cask uninstall
Uninstalls the given cask
brew cleanup
Remove stale lock files and outdated downloads for all formulae and casks and remove old versions of installed formulae
brew services
Manage background services with macOS' launchctl(1) daemon manager
brew services cleanup
Remove all unused services
brew services list
List all services
brew services run
Run the service formula without registering to launch at login (or boot)
brew services start
Start the service formula immediately and register it to launch at login
brew services stop
Stop the service formula immediately and unregister it from launching at
brew services restart
Stop (if necessary) and start the service formula immediately and register it to launch at login (or boot)
brew analytics
Manages analytics preferences
brew analytics on
Turns on analytics
brew analytics off
Turns off analytics
brew analytics regenerate-uuid
Regenerate the UUID used for analytics
brew autoremove
Uninstall formulae that were only installed as a dependency of another formula and are now no longer needed
brew tap
Tap a formula repository
brew untap
Remove a tapped formula repository
brew link
Symlink all of formula's installed files into Homebrew's prefix
brew unlink
Remove symlinks for formula from Homebrew's prefix
brew formulae
List all available formulae
brew casks
List all available casks
brew home
Open a formula, cask's homepage in a browser, or open Homebrew's own homepage if no argument is provided
brew alias
Manage custom user created brew aliases
brew developer
Display the current state of Homebrew's developer mode
