Check package information installed by Homebrew

After installing a package using Homebrew, you can see the package information right away, it prints out to the stdout, such as: caveats, configuration, dependencies… Somehow, if you forget them, and want to look up the package information, what would you do?

Luckily, Homebrew provides an option to look up the information of installed packages, and just like this,

$ brew info [package_name]

detail of the package will be shown on terminal screen. I personally don’t remember much of configuration of many packages that I install on my machine, like nginx…and with this command, I can easily find out the nginx config file and start working without the need to remember anything.

Original post: http://blog.petehouston.com/2016/05/13/check-package-information-installed-by-homebrew/

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