How do I “replay” the “Caveats” section from a homebrew recipe

Question

When installing a homebrew recipe, you occasionally will get some useful information in the \"Caveats\" section that you may want to tuck under your hat. Is there any way to

Answer 1

I created a brew external command for that: https://github.com/rafaelgarrido/homebrew-caveats

$ brew caveats zsh
==> zsh: Caveats
Add the following to your zshrc to access the online help:
    unalias run-help
    autoload run-help
    HELPDIR=/usr/local/share/zsh/helpfiles

You can also pass multiple formulas:

$ brew caveats rabbitmq mongodb
==> rabbitmq: Caveats
Management Plugin enabled by default at http://localhost:15672

Bash completion has been installed to:
  /usr/local/etc/bash_completion.d

To have launchd start rabbitmq at login:
  ln -sfv /usr/local/opt/rabbitmq/*.plist ~/Library/LaunchAgents
Then to load rabbitmq now:
  launchctl load ~/Library/LaunchAgents/homebrew.mxcl.rabbitmq.plist
Or, if you don't want/need launchctl, you can just run:
  rabbitmq-server

==> mongodb: Caveats
To have launchd start mongodb at login:
  ln -sfv /usr/local/opt/mongodb/*.plist ~/Library/LaunchAgents
Then to load mongodb now:
  launchctl load ~/Library/LaunchAgents/homebrew.mxcl.mongodb.plist
Or, if you don't want/need launchctl, you can just run:
  mongod --config /usr/local/etc/mongod.conf

Pretty handy when you need to check some configs!