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Homebrew Package Update Notifications on Mountain Lion
#!/bin/bash
#
# Notify of Homebrew updates via Notification Center on Mac OS X
#
# Author: Chris Streeter http://www.chrisstreeter.com
# Requires: terminal-notifier. Install with:
# gem install terminal-notifier
TERM_APP='/Applications/Terminal.app'
BREW_EXEC='/usr/local/bin/brew'
TERMINAL_NOTIFIER=`which terminal-notifier`
NOTIF_ARGS="-activate com.apple.Terminal"
$BREW_EXEC update 2>&1 > /dev/null
outdated=`$BREW_EXEC outdated | tr ' ' '\n'`
if [ -z "$outdated" ] ; then
if [ -e $TERMINAL_NOTIFIER ]; then
# No updates available
$TERMINAL_NOTIFIER $NOTIF_ARGS \
-title "No Homebrew Updates Available" \
-message "No updates available yet for any homebrew packages."
fi
else
# We've got an outdated formula or two
# Nofity via Notification Center
if [ -e $TERMINAL_NOTIFIER ]; then
lc=$((`echo "$outdated" | wc -l`))
outdated=`echo "$outdated" | tail -$lc`
message=`echo "$outdated" | head -5`
if [ "$outdated" != "$message" ]; then
message="Some of the outdated formulae are:
$message"
else
message="The following formulae are outdated:
$message"
fi
# Send to the Nofication Center
$TERMINAL_NOTIFIER $NOTIF_ARGS \
-title "Homebrew Update(s) Available" -message "$message"
fi
fi
@tmitchell
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Works great, thanks for the gist! One fix: line 7 should be # gem install terminal-notifier

@streeter
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Thanks!

@jbarratt
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Alternatively you could do brew install terminal-notifier, which since this tool is targeting brew users, seems like has better odds of working out of the box.

@SimonSimCity
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I've extended the script to exclude pinned formulae in the list of outdated formulas:

https://gist.github.com/SimonSimCity/13832e2e03597a6be793

@todmephis
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todmephis commented Jul 27, 2018

Added some new features on my forked version. macOS High Sierra
https://gist.github.com/todmephis/832796f8d5b148efa89df4ca7c63a1b4

Thanks @streeter. Great script.

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