homebrew-cask-upgrade

A small bash script to upgrade homebrew-cask packages.

Currently, homebrew-cask does not have an upgrade command unlike homebrew.

This script is an expanded version of @stgtpep's comment here.

This script is not supported by the maintainers of homebrew-cask. They will likely object to this hasty implementation. This script merely provides basic upgrading functionality and the removal of old versions.

Installation

brew tap nathanjang/cask-upgrade
brew install brew-cask-upgrade

Usage

Basic:

brew cask-upgrade

To upgrade, then remove old versions after the new version is installed:

brew cask-upgrade -c

or

brew cask-upgrade --clean-old

Note that old versions are removed after brew cask install is finished. It will therefore not remove anything from packages that it is not upgrading.