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Marcellvs
Marcellvs

Reputation: 461

How to find the executables installed by a package?

When I installed 7zip via home brew (Formula sevenzip), i noticed that i cannot run it via sevenzip and even brew info sevenzip did not tell me the name of the binary.

Only after looking in the script file on Github I noticed a command 7zz but there must be an easier way to find out the binaries or commands associated with a homebrew package.

Upvotes: 1

Views: 855

Answers (1)

Mark Setchell
Mark Setchell

Reputation: 207688

The simplest I know is:

brew ls PACKAGE

and you can normally see it pretty quickly. Personally, I use p7zip as PACKAGE.

Alternatively, as brew --prefix tells you where binaries are installed (via symlinks), you can find the newest installed binary with:

ls -lrt $(brew --prefix)/bin

and it's the last one listed.

Upvotes: 2

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