How can i get more info about a brew formula before installing?

Question

I know i can do something like

## brew info FORMULA_NAME
brew info wgetpaste

Output

wgetpaste: stable 2.20
http://wgetpaste.         


        

Answer 1

Nope. Homebrew intentionally lets the web sites serve as documentation of the packages, instead of maintaining a separate copy of it.

You can do a brew home to fire up a browser from the command line, or brew edit to examine the formula's installation instructions themselves in an editor.