Script upgrading outdated brew casks

cask_upgrade.sh

#!/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

it is an updated version of https://gist.github.com/atais/5d3ec79e67f221cb55b7

Brilliant, thank you 👍

This is sweet! Thanks!

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

cheers

Great script. Much appreciated.

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.

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

@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seems that my version is outdated, but...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.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

It is awesome!

Thanks.

Thank you!

This is unfortunately outdated.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