How do I find out where brew links end up?
symlinks are typically in /usr/local/
and is defined as by brew --prefix
. To see where the app symlinks to (using wget
as an example),
$ brew link wget --dry-run
Warning: Already linked: /usr/local/Cellar/wget/1.16.1
To relink: brew unlink wget && brew link wget
According to the brew
man page:
If --dry-run or -n is passed, Homebrew will list all files which would be linked or which would be deleted by brew link --overwrite, but will not actually link or delete any files.
To see where all of the files are located, use the list [formula] --verbose
option like so
$ brew list wget --verbose
/usr/local/Cellar/wget/1.16.1/AUTHORS
/usr/local/Cellar/wget/1.16.1/bin/wget
/usr/local/Cellar/wget/1.16.1/ChangeLog
/usr/local/Cellar/wget/1.16.1/COPYING
/usr/local/Cellar/wget/1.16.1/INSTALL_RECEIPT.json
/usr/local/Cellar/wget/1.16.1/NEWS
/usr/local/Cellar/wget/1.16.1/README
/usr/local/Cellar/wget/1.16.1/share/info/wget.info
/usr/local/Cellar/wget/1.16.1/share/man/man1/wget.1
In the case the package is already linked you can list existing links:
brew unlink <formulae> --dry-run
To get more info about the links:
brew unlink <formulae> --dry-run | xargs ls -l