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bin+lib brewr

Better brew update with desc of new formulae/casks

12 releases

0.2.2 Mar 17, 2025
0.2.1 Oct 10, 2024
0.2.0 Aug 23, 2024
0.1.9 Jun 28, 2024
0.1.2 Jan 13, 2024

#59 in macOS and iOS APIs

Download history 2/week @ 2024-12-04 4/week @ 2024-12-11 13/week @ 2025-02-05 18/week @ 2025-02-12 9/week @ 2025-02-26 103/week @ 2025-03-12 29/week @ 2025-03-19

141 downloads per month

MIT license

200KB
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brewr

brewr updates brew and adds descriptions for new and outdated formulae

Built with Rust as a first project while I was learning it. With multi-threaded lookups.

Crates.io Crates.io

Screenshot of brewr

Usage: brewr [OPTIONS] (no options defaults to update brew)

Options:
  -a, --all      List all installed formulae with descriptions
  -l, --leaves   List all manually installed formulae with descriptions
  -g, --grid     Display results with grid lines

Dependencies

~5MB
~95K SLoC