brew-cask-upgrade is a command-line tool for upgrading every outdated app
installed by Homebrew Cask.
Homebrew Cask extends Homebrew and brings its elegance, simplicity, and speed to the installation and management of GUI macOS applications and large binaries alike, but it
lacks a sub-command like brew upgrade to upgrade installed apps, so if you want to upgrade the installed apps, you have to delete the previous versions and re-install the latest version manually for every single app.
With brew-cask-upgrade, you just need to type one command to upgrade all the apps installed by Homebrew Cask.
brew tap buo/cask-upgrade
Upgrade outdated apps:
brew cu
Upgrade a specific app:
brew cu [CASK]
While running the brew cu command without any other further options, the script automatically runs brew update to get
latest versions of all the installed casks (this can be disabled, see options below).
If the app has the auto update functionality (they ask you themselves, if you want to upgrade them), they are not
upgraded while running brew cu. If you want to upgrade them, pass --all option to include also those kind of apps.
Please note, that if you update the apps using their auto-update functionality, that change will not reflect in the
brew cu script! Tracked version gets only updated, when the app is upgraded through brew cu --all.
Usage: brew cu [CASK] [options]
-a, --all Include apps that auto-update in the upgrade.
--cleanup Cleans up cached downloads and tracker symlinks after
updating.
-f --force Include apps that are marked as latest
(i.e. force-reinstall them).
--no-brew-update Prevent auto-update of Homebrew, taps, and formulae
before checking outdated apps.
-y, --yes Update all outdated apps; answer yes to updating packages.
-q, --quiet Do not show information about installed apps or current options.
Display usage instructions:
brew help cu