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Script upgrading outdated brew casks
#!/usr/bin/env bash
(set -x; brew update;)
(set -x; brew cleanup;)
(set -x; brew cask cleanup;)
red=`tput setaf 1`
green=`tput setaf 2`
reset=`tput sgr0`
casks=( $(brew cask list) )
for cask in ${casks[@]}
do
version=$(brew cask info $cask | sed -n "s/$cask:\ \(.*\)/\1/p")
installed=$(find "/usr/local/Caskroom/$cask" -type d -maxdepth 1 -maxdepth 1 -name "$version")
if [[ -z $installed ]]; then
echo "${red}${cask}${reset} requires ${red}update${reset}."
(set -x; brew cask uninstall $cask --force;)
(set -x; brew cask install $cask --force;)
else
echo "${red}${cask}${reset} is ${green}up-to-date${reset}."
fi
done
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atais commented May 3, 2016

@winkelsdorf
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Brilliant, thank you 👍

@hiddenindians
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This is sweet! Thanks!

@hideout
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hideout commented Jun 4, 2016

thanks atais for that script!
that is what i was searching ...

cheers

@mshick
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mshick commented Aug 2, 2016

Great script. Much appreciated.

@gasperz
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gasperz commented Sep 2, 2016

It looks like it stopped working. I know it was working before but now it is not working for my anymore. When I run it everything looks ok. I get no errors.
But I can see that there is new version of cask. for example brew cask info brave gets me newer version than the one installed. But it isn't upgraded. I also tried with brew cask list | xargs brew cask install --force and with this, it gets upgraded.

@gasperz
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gasperz commented Sep 8, 2016

I made small change and it work again. I changed line 16 to installed="$(brew cask info $cask | grep 'does not exist')"
My gist

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atais commented Sep 10, 2016

@gasperz I am not sure if that is enough. Current output for brew cask info iterm2

iterm2: 3.0.8
https://www.iterm2.com/
/usr/local/Caskroom/iterm2/3.0.5 (68B)
From: https://github.com/caskroom/homebrew-cask/blob/master/Casks/iterm2.rb
==> Name
iTerm2
==> Artifacts
iTerm.app (app)
iterm2 is up-to-date.

seems that my version is outdated, but...
I can not see any string determining if version is installed here... and finding it out other way will be more complex.

@jwadolowski
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I've just created a slightly modified version of this script and it seems to do the trick for me: https://gist.github.com/jwadolowski/622e056478e65341820021b659b5938c

Additionally it also updates regular brew packages, not only the cask ones.

@gasperz
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gasperz commented Sep 14, 2016

@atais You are correct. It was my mistake. but @jwadolowski solution does work for me. Tested with VirtualBox cask.

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atais commented Sep 19, 2016

Well in the meantime I have raised a question on brew cask github: Homebrew/homebrew-cask#24412

And got an interesting link: https://github.com/buo/homebrew-cask-upgrade
Have not tried yet.

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atais commented Sep 21, 2016

@jwadolowski I have merged your changes to my gist. Thanks!

@hao-lh
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hao-lh commented Jan 21, 2017

There might be an issue with uninstalling the app first, since the download might fail if the network connection is bad, recommending remove the code on L21 since install with --force option would overwrite its ancestor by default.

@loustler
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It is awesome!

Thanks.

@maxisme
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maxisme commented Oct 19, 2017

Thank you!

@jjanczur
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This is unfortunately outdated.
Brew no longer uses cask. Now It's brew install --cask instead of brew cask install

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