Script to see what top-level packages are outdated and then update them

readme.md

Install

1. Save the script below as update-outdated in your path.
2. run chmod +x /path/to/update-outdated
3. run update-outdated from the root of your project
4. if you'd like to auto-update and save updated versions to your package.json, run again like so update-outdated -f

update-outdated.sh

#! /bin/bash
for pkg in $(
    npm outdated 2>&1 \
    | grep -v http \
    | grep -v Package \
    | egrep -v '>' \
    | sed -E "s/"$'\E'"\[([0-9]{1,3}((;[0-9]{1,3})*)?)?[m|K]//g" \
    | awk '{ print $1 }' \
); do   
    if [ "$1" == "-f" ]; then
        echo "updating $pkg to latest"
        npm i "${pkg}@latest" --save &> /dev/null
    else
        echo "$pkg is out of date"
    fi
done