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

In homebrew you have casks and formulas, which have different functions, so:

For formulas:

To get info about the formula itself you can use what you did (brew info [formula name). To get info about the app you're installing use:

brew desc [Formula name]

You can also go to the homebrew's site for the formula via brew home [formula name

For Casks:

Sadly, casks (like Firefox) don't have the desc command and you only have brew cask info (what you used) and brew cask home