Gem Version

Bcupgrade - brew cask upgrade

Upgrade all installed brew casks.

Requirement

This script uses brew cask info result.

% brew cask info atom
atom: 1.10.2
https://atom.io/
/usr/local/Caskroom/atom/1.7.3 (does not exist)
/usr/local/Caskroom/atom/1.8.0 (68B)
/usr/local/Caskroom/atom/1.9.0 (2,546 files, 224.9M)
From: https://github.com/caskroom/homebrew-cask/blob/master/Casks/atom.rb
==> Name
Github Atom
==> Artifacts
Atom.app (app)
/Applications/Atom.app/Contents/Resources/app/apm/node_modules/.bin/apm (binary)
/Applications/Atom.app/Contents/Resources/app/atom.sh (binary)

Installation

% gem install bcupgrade

Usage

bcupgrade with no arguments to check & upgrade all casks.

  • Displays a confirmation prompt [y/n] when it attempts to re-install.
  • Install latest version. (brew cask install --force #{cask})
% bcupgrade

==> Check 'brew cask list'...
["1password", "alfred", "atom", "bartender"]

==> Check 'brew cask info' for the latest available version...
1password / 6.3.2
atom / 1.10.2

Upgrade 1password? [y/n] n

Upgrade atom? [y/n] y
install atom
==> Satisfying dependencies
complete
==> Downloading https://github.com/atom/atom/releases/download/v1.10.2/atom-mac.zip
############################################################################################################################## 100.0%
==> Verifying checksum for Cask atom
==> It seems there is already an App at '/Applications/Atom.app'; overwriting.
==> Removing App: '/Applications/Atom.app'
==> Moving App 'Atom.app' to '/Applications/Atom.app'
==> Symlinking Binary 'apm' to '/usr/local/bin/apm'
==> Symlinking Binary 'atom.sh' to '/usr/local/bin/atom'

bcupgrade with arguments to check & upgrade selected casks.

% bcupgrade dropbox firefox

Options

% bcupgrade --help
Usage: bcupgrade [options] [cask1 cask2 ...]
    -d, --dry-run                    Check version without installing
    -r, --remove                     Remove previous version with installing
    -y, --yes                        Install cask without prompt
    -v, --version                    Show version number

Configuration File

If you want to ignore upgrade casks, you can add settings in the user's ~/.bcupgrade (YAML syntax).

ignore:
  - omniplan
  - sublime-text2

Contributing

Bug reports and pull requests are welcome on GitHub at https://github.com/DriftwoodJP/bcupgrade. This project is intended to be a safe, welcoming space for collaboration, and contributors are expected to adhere to the Contributor Covenant code of conduct.

License

The gem is available as open source under the terms of the MIT License.