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muppet
muppet

Reputation: 51

Get Homebrew formula install path (including version)

I am looking for a way to determine the installed path of a Homebrew formula that includes the version number.

Currently I am aware of the following command,

brew --cellar pig

which will return,

/usr/local/Cellar/pig

However, the actual install path is,

/usr/local/Cellar/pig/0.15.0

which changes when newer/older versions are installed.

Is there any way to obtain this information using a brew command or the command line?

Upvotes: 1

Views: 1160

Answers (3)

Erhhung
Erhhung

Reputation: 996

I find that the brew list $1 command in @melMass's function runs too slowly to be used repeatedly in my ~/.bash_profile, so here's a version that should be faster, but assumes that all package paths are under their version subdir in $(brew --cellar $1):

brew_path() {
  local p _p
  while read _p; do
    p=$_p
  done < <(
    pwd "$(brew --cellar $1)"/*
  )
  echo $p
}

Example:

$ brew_path pcre
/usr/local/Cellar/pcre/8.45

Upvotes: 0

Christopher Gentle
Christopher Gentle

Reputation: 195

You could use brew list <package> and cut up to the version.

Eg:

$ brew list hbase | head -1 | sed 's/\(^.*\/hbase\/[^\/]*\).*/\1/' 
/usr/local/Cellar/hbase/1.1.5

Update: See this more up to date solution.

Upvotes: 1

melMass
melMass

Reputation: 5159

Based on Christopher Gentle tips I have made the following function:

brew_path (){

    brew list $1 | head -1 | sed "s/\(^.*\/$1\/[^\/]*\).*/\1/"

}

Example:

brew_path opencolorio
/usr/local/Cellar/opencolorio/1.1.0

Upvotes: 2

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