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

Questions

I know i can do something like

## brew info FORMULA_NAME
brew info wgetpaste

Output

wgetpaste: stable 2.20
http://wgetpaste.zlin.dk/
Not installed
https://github.com/mxcl/homebrew/commits/master/Library/Formula/wgetpaste.rb

Then i can follow the url to get some info about the formula before installing. Do we have any way to get this info in command line using brew?

Answers

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 <formula> to fire up a browser from the command line, or brew edit <formula> to examine the formula s installation instructions themselves in an editor.

Source

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http://stackoverflow.com/questions/15860297/how-can-i-get-more-info-about-a-brew-formula-before-installing

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