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affanfarid · 2018-09-20T18:33:50Z

thanks, this helped, if you could format it to a table that would make it a lot better

akishaha · 2019-02-23T21:27:53Z

Thanks, it worked for me too.

simonkeng · 2019-02-25T02:44:15Z

Me too, thank you!

Coldsp33d · 2019-06-08T17:11:52Z

This is really slow, is there something faster?

evictor · 2019-06-14T20:11:30Z

@Coldsp33d here's how to do it in parallel; note that you need parallel which you can install with brew install parallel. (Sorry, I couldn't figure out how to do this with xargs. 😬 )

brew list -f1 | parallel "brew info {} | egrep '[0-9]* files, ' | sed 's/^.*[0-9]* files, \(.*\)).*$/{} \1/'"

evictor · 2019-06-14T20:21:09Z

Can also do this to sort by size descending, though you won't see intermediate output while parallel goes:

brew list -f1 | parallel "brew info {} | egrep '[0-9]* files, ' | sed 's/^.*[0-9]* files, \(.*\)).*$/{} \1/'" | sort -h -r

NikhilVerma · 2019-11-05T06:38:11Z

Just a small update, the sorting command is not correct at least for me

brew list -f1 | parallel "brew info {} | egrep '[0-9]* files, ' | sed 's/^.*[0-9]* files, $.*$).*$/{} \1/'" | sort -k2 -hr

Sorts correctly because we are sorting the second column

eguven · 2019-11-05T17:18:21Z

I didn't want to require parallel dependency so I've updated the snippet to use xargs, added the sort and table output. Thanks for the suggestions everyone.

attriroot · 2019-11-23T17:30:51Z

thank you so much!

jagdishadusumalli · 2020-08-13T07:17:20Z

Just a small update, the sorting command is not correct at least for me

brew list -f1 | parallel "brew info {} | egrep '[0-9]* files, ' | sed 's/^.*[0-9]* files, $.*$).*$/{} \1/'" | sort -k2 -hr

Sorts correctly because we are sorting the second column

Hi @NikhilVerma i tried your command and even others above but its failing for me
Error: ambiguous option: -f1

Am on macOS catalina 10.15.6 with CLT 11.5.0.0.1.1588476445.

Pls help out

vasudev-hv · 2020-08-16T09:46:09Z

Hi @NikhilVerma i tried your command and even others above but its failing for me
Error: ambiguous option: -f1

Am on macOS catalina 10.15.6 with CLT 11.5.0.0.1.1588476445.

Pls help out

@jagdishadusumalli Remove -f1 after brew list.

jagdishadusumalli · 2020-08-16T17:47:45Z

Hi @NikhilVerma i tried your command and even others above but its failing for me
Error: ambiguous option: -f1
Am on macOS catalina 10.15.6 with CLT 11.5.0.0.1.1588476445.
Pls help out

@jagdishadusumalli Remove -f1 after brew list.

Thanks Vasudev

eguven · 2020-09-18T09:46:27Z

I've removed -f1 from the gist, thanks @vasudev-hv and @jagdishadusumalli

eguven · 2020-10-29T15:43:56Z

Warning: Calling brew list to only list formulae is deprecated! Use brew list --formula instead.

Added --formula

bkeys818 · 2020-11-01T17:10:33Z

Just an updated version for simpletons like me

brew install parallel; parallel --citation   #Skip this step if parallel is already installed
brew list --formula | parallel "brew info {} | egrep '[0-9]* files, ' | sed 's/^.*[0-9]* files, \(.*\)).*$/{} \1/'" | sort -k2 -hr

georgio · 2021-02-18T05:58:34Z

This is identical to what @bkeys818 posted except it's compatible with the fish shell

brew install parallel; parallel --citation   #Skip this step if parallel is already installed
brew list --formula | parallel "brew info {} | egrep '[0-9]* files, ' | sed 's/^.*[0-9]* files, \(.*\)).*(/{}) \1/'" | sort -k2 -hr

vogler · 2023-11-07T15:10:36Z

Alternative: brew install ncdu && ncdu /opt/homebrew/Cellar

manan-gup · 2023-11-22T20:28:22Z

Works on fish shell without parallel:

brew list --formula | xargs -P8 -I {} sh -c "brew info {} | grep -E '\([0-9]+ files'" \
| awk -F '[/(),]' '{print $6 ", " $8 ", " $9}' | sort -t "," -rh -k3

and gives output in a comma-separated format which can be simply changed in the awk command:

exiftool, 603 files,  25.3MB
micro, 7 files,  11.4MB
tealdeer, 12 files,  5.4MB
bat, 14 files,  4.6MB
eza, 14 files,  1.1MB

adk-anw · 2024-01-15T19:40:17Z

Worked for me too! Thanks!

redspot · 2024-05-16T21:43:39Z

TLDR; the du-wildcard version is the simplest and fastest.

du -sch $(brew --cellar)/*/* | sort -k1h

Summary of pipelines and timings

alias	description (summary of pipeline)	runtime (sec)
parallel	`brew list \| parallel "brew info {}"`	60.6667 avg
linear	`brew info $(brew list)`	25.333 avg
du-formula	`brew list \| xargs brew --cellar \| xargs du -sch`	3.4
du-version	`brew_list_with_versions \| xargs du -sch`	2.5
du-wildcard	`du -sch $(brew --cellar)//`	0.4

Three run average, for parallel and linear

	parallel	linear
t1	61	25
t2	61	25
t3	60	26
avg	60.6667	25.333

Let's go over the existing solutions from above.
First, lets wrap our brew info ... | sed ... pipeline into a function.
Also note, that all lsited functions here are bash and zsh compatible.

# simplify this:
#   egrep '[0-9]* files, ' | sed 's/^.*[0-9]* files, \(.*\)).*$/{} \1/'
# into this:
#   sed -nE -e '/[0-9]+ files, /{s,.*/Cellar/,,;s/ \(.* files, ([^)]+)\)/ \1/p}'
# and, allow multiple args for 'brew info'
brew_formula_size() {
    brew info "${@?}" \
    | sed -nE -e '
    /[0-9]+ files, /{
        s,.*/Cellar/,,
        s/ \(.* files, ([^)]+)\)/ \1/p
    }'
}

And, then, lets wrap the sizing into a parallel pipeline function

brew_sizes() {
    if [ $# -gt 0 ]; then
        printf '%s\n' "$@"
    else
        brew list --formula
    fi \
    | parallel "bash -c 'brew_formula_size {}'" \
    | sort -k2h
}

# Example usages using gnu parallel:
brew_sizes zlib util-linux | column -t
brew_sizes | tail | column -t

However, parallel fs sizing operations won't improve performance. Here's the timing for the parallel version.

$ time { brew_sizes | tail | column -t; }
Warning: Formula pev was renamed to readpe.
icu4c/74.2               85.0MB   *
berkeley-db@5/5.3.28_1   87.7MB   
ghostscript/10.03.0      170.7MB  *
boost/1.85.0             226.9MB  *
go/1.22.3                259.5MB  *
gcc/14.1.0               359.7MB  *
binutils/2.42            490.5MB  
[email protected]/11.0.1  1GB      
mingw-w64/11.0.1_1       1GB      *
llvm/18.1.5              2.7GB    

real    0m59.004s
user    5m12.727s
sys     1m30.422s

Since brew info accepts multiple formulas, we can do a linear, non-parallel version.

# Example usages, linear non-parallel:
brew_formula_size zlib util-linux | column -t
brew_formula_size $(brew list --formula) | sort -k2h | tail | column -t

$ time { brew_formula_size $(brew list --formula) | sort -k2h | tail | column -t; }
Warning: Formula pev was renamed to readpe.
icu4c/74.2               85.0MB   *
berkeley-db@5/5.3.28_1   87.7MB   
ghostscript/10.03.0      170.7MB  *
boost/1.85.0             226.9MB  *
go/1.22.3                259.5MB  *
gcc/14.1.0               359.7MB  *
binutils/2.42            490.5MB  
[email protected]/11.0.1  1GB      
mingw-w64/11.0.1_1       1GB      *
llvm/18.1.5              2.7GB    

real    0m25.452s
user    0m11.543s
sys     0m6.668s

You could just pipe everything to du and get the sizes per formula, but not the sizes per formula per version.

# one-liners, using 'du', but does not show sizes per installed version
printf '%s\n' zlib util-linux | xargs brew --cellar | xargs du -sch | sort -k1h
brew list --formula | xargs brew --cellar | xargs du -sch | sort -k1h | tail

$ time { brew list --formula | xargs brew --cellar | xargs du -sch | sort -k1h | tail; }
Warning: Formula pev was renamed to readpe.
123M    /home/linuxbrew/.linuxbrew/Cellar/ruby
172M    /home/linuxbrew/.linuxbrew/Cellar/ghostscript
263M    /home/linuxbrew/.linuxbrew/Cellar/boost
295M    /home/linuxbrew/.linuxbrew/Cellar/go
363M    /home/linuxbrew/.linuxbrew/Cellar/gcc
502M    /home/linuxbrew/.linuxbrew/Cellar/binutils
1.1G    /home/linuxbrew/.linuxbrew/Cellar/mingw-w64
1.1G    /home/linuxbrew/.linuxbrew/Cellar/[email protected]
2.8G    /home/linuxbrew/.linuxbrew/Cellar/llvm
8.1G    total

real    0m3.378s
user    0m1.879s
sys     0m0.999s

brew list --formula --versions does produce all the versions for each formula.

$ brew list --formula --versions zlib util-linux
util-linux 2.40.1 2.39.3
zlib 1.3.1

You could then fold the formulas together with the versions, like this:

# array slicing, like ${arr[@]:start} and ${arr[@]:start:length}
# works in bash and zsh,
# and 'start' starts at 0, for both bash and zsh
#
# for input 'foo 1.2 3.4' into 'read -a form',
# ${form[@]:0:1} == 'foo'
# ${form[@]:1} == (1.2 3.4)  # sub-array
#
# $ printf '%s\n' arg1 arg2
# arg1
# arg2
# ^-- printf will repeat the format pattern for each arg
# "${array[@]}" will turn into multiple args, if non-empty
#
brew_list_with_versions() {
    brew list --formula --versions "$@" \
    | while read -a form; do
        printf "$(brew --cellar)/${form[@]:0:1}/%s\n" "${form[@]:1}"
    done
}

$ brew_list_with_versions zlib util-linux
/home/linuxbrew/.linuxbrew/Cellar/util-linux/2.40.1
/home/linuxbrew/.linuxbrew/Cellar/util-linux/2.39.3
/home/linuxbrew/.linuxbrew/Cellar/zlib/1.3.1

# one-liners, using 'du', show sizes per formula per installed version
brew_list_with_versions zlib util-linux | xargs du -sch | sort -k1h
brew_list_with_versions | xargs du -sch | sort -k1h | tail

# NOTE: this was run after the above timed pipeline, which showed 'real 0m3.378s'
$ time { brew_list_with_versions | xargs du -sch | sort -k1h | tail; }
123M    /home/linuxbrew/.linuxbrew/Cellar/ruby/3.3.1
172M    /home/linuxbrew/.linuxbrew/Cellar/ghostscript/10.03.0
263M    /home/linuxbrew/.linuxbrew/Cellar/boost/1.85.0
295M    /home/linuxbrew/.linuxbrew/Cellar/go/1.22.3
363M    /home/linuxbrew/.linuxbrew/Cellar/gcc/14.1.0
502M    /home/linuxbrew/.linuxbrew/Cellar/binutils/2.42
1.1G    /home/linuxbrew/.linuxbrew/Cellar/mingw-w64/11.0.1_1
1.1G    /home/linuxbrew/.linuxbrew/Cellar/[email protected]/11.0.1
2.8G    /home/linuxbrew/.linuxbrew/Cellar/llvm/18.1.5
8.1G    total

real    0m2.465s
user    0m1.071s
sys     0m1.410s

You could just use 'du' on Cellar/some_formula/some.version like this:

du -sch $(brew --cellar)/*/* | sort -k1h | tail
du -sch $(brew --cellar)/{zlib,util-linux}/* | sort -k1h
# pipeline version for specific formulas,
# 'paste -sd,' joins input lines with comma
echo zlib util-linux | bash -c "du -sch $(brew --cellar)/{$(xargs -n1|paste -sd,)}/*"
echo zlib util-linux | xargs -n1 | paste -sd, | bash -c "du -sch $(brew --cellar)/{$(cat)}/*"
du_wildcard() {
    typeset forms=$(tty --quiet || xargs --no-run-if-empty -n1 | paste -sd,)
    if [ x"${forms}" = x ]; then
        du -sch $(brew --cellar)/*/*
    else
        echo "du -sch $(brew --cellar)/{${forms}}/*" | $SHELL
        # bash -c "du -sch $(brew --cellar)/{${forms}}/*"
    fi
}
echo zlib util-linux | du_wildcard

# NOTE: this was run after the above timed pipeline, which showed 'real 0m2.465s'
$ time { du -sch $(brew --cellar)/*/* | sort -k1h | tail; }
123M    /home/linuxbrew/.linuxbrew/Cellar/ruby/3.3.1
172M    /home/linuxbrew/.linuxbrew/Cellar/ghostscript/10.03.0
263M    /home/linuxbrew/.linuxbrew/Cellar/boost/1.85.0
295M    /home/linuxbrew/.linuxbrew/Cellar/go/1.22.3
363M    /home/linuxbrew/.linuxbrew/Cellar/gcc/14.1.0
502M    /home/linuxbrew/.linuxbrew/Cellar/binutils/2.42
1.1G    /home/linuxbrew/.linuxbrew/Cellar/mingw-w64/11.0.1_1
1.1G    /home/linuxbrew/.linuxbrew/Cellar/[email protected]/11.0.1
2.8G    /home/linuxbrew/.linuxbrew/Cellar/llvm/18.1.5
8.1G    total

real    0m0.359s
user    0m0.067s
sys     0m0.308s

eguven · 2024-05-17T13:06:16Z

Thanks @redspot I've added an alternative using du -sch

	# this original one uses values returned from 'brew info'
	brew list --formula \| xargs -n1 -P8 -I {} \
	sh -c "brew info {} \| egrep '[0-9]* files, ' \| sed 's/^.[0-9] files, \(.\)).$/{} \1/'" \| \
	sort -h -r -k2 - \| column -t

	# faster alternative using 'du'
	du -sch $(brew --cellar)// \| sed "s\|$(brew --cellar)/\([^/]\)/.\|\1\|" \| sort -k1h

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Just an updated version for simpletons like me

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