Reinstalling homebrew symbolic links after a restore

Question

I restored my Mac running 10.9 from time machine after a re-install but it appears that the symbolic links under /usr/local/bin for some of the formulas were lost.

Answer 1

Instead of reinstating the symlinks, the better way to do it would be to use brew link.

For a given binary which isn't in /usr/local/bin, e.g. yasm, run brew unlink yasm && brew link yasm.

You can run this for all of your packages using xargs, like so:

brew list | xargs -I % sh -c 'brew unlink %; brew link %'