homebrew-backup

Back up your Homebrew profile

⚠️ Deprecation notice

As of Homebrew v1.0.0, Homebrew now comes with a brew bundle dump command. homebrew-backup continues to be functional, but I recommend moving to brew bundle instead.

Introduction

brew tap rstacruz/backup
brew backup

Creates the following files:

• brew.sh — List of Homebrew packages
• cask.sh - List of cask packages, if Cask is installed
• index - List of versions

On a different machine, you can run brew.sh and cask.sh to reinstall the same packages.

Optional, but recommended: commit these files into a Git repo and share them to the world!

Examples

• Example brew.sh:

# taps
brew tap homebrew/versions
brew tap neovim/neovim

# packages
brew install aria2
brew install autoconf
brew install autojump --HEAD
...

• Example cask.sh:

  # taps
  brew tap caskroom/cask
  brew tap caskroom/fonts
  brew install caskroom/cask/cask
  
  # casks
  brew cask install alfred
  brew cask install appcleaner
  brew cask install dropbox
  ...

NB: API still subject to change

Thanks

brew-backup © 2015+, Rico Sta. Cruz. Released under the MIT License.
Authored and maintained by Rico Sta. Cruz with help from contributors (list).

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