Babble

An upgrade routine for Homebrew, Mac App Store and macOS, written in shell.

Example session

Install

# Download the script
curl --silent "https://raw.githubusercontent.com/toobuntu/babble/main/bbl" --output "<path>/bbl" && chmod +x "<path>/bbl"
# Run it
"<path>/bbl"

Change <path> to the path of your choice. "$HOME/Downloads", "$HOME/bin" and "$HOME/devel" are all common possibilities.

Usage

bbl

To do

• Use a configuration file to supply a list of GUI apps which should be quit prior to upgrading them and restarted after the upgrade is completed.
• Remove extraneous code comments.
• Do not attempt to upgrade the terminal being used to run Babble itself.

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Babble uses the following open source icons:

• Tabler Icons (MIT License. The full license text is available in LICENSE.)

License

Babble is licensed under the GPLv3 License. The full license text is available in LICENSE.