export-list-of-everything-installed-by-brew.md

Export List Of Everything Installed By Brew

If you're on a Mac using Homebrew to install various tools and utilities, there may come a time when you want a listing of what is installed.

Run this command:

$ brew bundle dump

It may take 10 or so seconds. When it is done, you'll have a Brewfile in your current directory.

Open it up and you'll see a bunch of lines like the following:

tap "heroku/brew"
tap "homebrew/bundle"
tap "homebrew/services"
tap "mongodb/brew"
tap "planetscale/tap"
tap "stripe/stripe-cli"
brew "asdf"
brew "bat"
brew "direnv"
brew "entr"
brew "exa"
brew "fd"
brew "ffmpeg"
brew "fx"
brew "fzf"
brew "gcc"
brew "gh"
brew "planetscale/tap/pscale"
brew "stripe/stripe-cli/stripe"
cask "1password-cli"
vscode "ms-playwright.playwright"
vscode "ms-vsliveshare.vsliveshare"
vscode "prisma.prisma"

Notice there are tap, brew, cask, and even vscode directives.

This is a file you could export and then run on a 'new' machine to install all the programs you're used to having available on your current machine.

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