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List installed Homebrew packages that are not being dependencies of any other
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homebrew-search-orphaned-packages.sh
#!/bin/sh
echo "Orphaned packages:\n"
for BREW_PKG in $(brew list --formula -1)
do
BREW_USES_PKG=$(brew uses $BREW_PKG --installed --recursive)
if [ -z "$BREW_USES_PKG" ]
then
echo "$BREW_PKG"
fi
done
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