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Install multiple homebrew formulas at the same time

You can install multiple homebrew formulas by brew install package1 package2. But if you have a text file with all the packages that you would like to install. How would you do it?

brew install < packages.txt doesn't work. It gives me the response: This command requires a formula argument

Solution

  • Like this:

    brew install $(cat packages.txt)

    or even just

    brew install $(<packages.txt)