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You can try to search your shell's history for brew install. Every shell has its own history command, but for example on fish I can do history | rg brew install. (rg is https://github.com/BurntSush...
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matthewsnyder
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2024-01-11T04:08:00Z (4 months ago)
- You can try to search your shell's history for `brew install`. Every shell has its own history command, but for example on fish I can do `history | rg brew install`. (`rg` is https://github.com/BurntSushi/ripgrep)
This should make it easy to figure out most things you explicitly installed, but it will miss things installed history entries being deleted (I think some shells default to a max of 1000 commands).
- You can try to search your shell's history for `brew install`. Every shell has its own history command, but for example on fish I can do `history | rg brew install`. (`rg` is https://github.com/BurntSushi/ripgrep)
- This should make it easy to figure out most things you explicitly installed, but it will miss things installed history entries being deleted (I think some shells default to a max of 1000 commands).
- Brew does, of course, have a notion of "explicitly installed" packages and ways of displaying those. But then you have to look up how to do that...
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matthewsnyder
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2024-01-11T04:07:09Z (4 months ago)
You can try to search your shell's history for `brew install`. Every shell has its own history command, but for example on fish I can do `history | rg brew install`. (`rg` is https://github.com/BurntSushi/ripgrep) This should make it easy to figure out most things you explicitly installed, but it will miss things installed history entries being deleted (I think some shells default to a max of 1000 commands).