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script.sh

# Go to the homebrew-cask directory
$ cd $(brew --repository)/Library/Taps/homebrew/homebrew-cask/Casks
# Bring up commit logs for the interested cask
$ git log --full-history -- jbidwatcher.rb
# Find the SHA of the last commit where the file was active. This will usually be the second commit on the list,
# where the first one is the commit where the file got deleted.
# For the jbidwatcher cask, this was 1d5f7ef8dd72f236d1edd100448473bec127a1e4
# Restore the file.
$ git checkout 1d5f7ef8dd72f236d1edd100448473bec127a1e4 -- jbidwatcher.rb
# Run your command
$ brew uninstall jbidwatcher
# Remove the file
$ rm jbidwatcher.rb