Looking for a way to uninstall all items installed via a Bew bundle - cleanup cannot find find Brewfile

[preetmyob]

Output of brew config

HOMEBREW_VERSION: 4.5.10
ORIGIN: https://github.com/Homebrew/brew
HEAD: 23c491e5bc9bfef218356c54e3b8971fbcc9ff13
Last commit: 4 days ago
Branch: stable
Core tap JSON: 17 Jul 22:55 UTC
Core cask tap JSON: 17 Jul 22:55 UTC
HOMEBREW_PREFIX: /opt/homebrew
HOMEBREW_CASK_OPTS: []
HOMEBREW_MAKE_JOBS: 10
Homebrew Ruby: 3.4.4 => /opt/homebrew/Library/Homebrew/vendor/portable-ruby/3.4.4/bin/ruby
CPU: deca-core 64-bit arm_firestorm_icestorm
Clang: 17.0.0 build 1700
Git: 2.50.1 => /opt/homebrew/bin/git
Curl: 8.7.1 => /usr/bin/curl
macOS: 15.5-arm64
CLT: 16.4.0.0.1.1747106510
Xcode: N/A
Rosetta 2: false

Output of brew doctor

Please note that these warnings are just used to help the Homebrew maintainers
with debugging if you file an issue. If everything you use Homebrew for is
working fine: please don't worry or file an issue; just ignore this. Thanks!

Warning: Some installed casks are deprecated or disabled.
You should find replacements for the following casks:
  microsoft-remote-desktop

Warning: Some installed formulae are deprecated or disabled.
You should find replacements for the following formulae:
  tldr

Warning: The following formulae have the same name as core formulae:
  aws/tap/eksctl
Their taps are in use, so you must use these full names throughout Homebrew.

Description of issue

I'm not sure if this is the way to do it, but I want to uninstall all the things that were installed using a recent brew bundle install.

If I try brew bundle cleanup --force --global it cannot find my brewfile

❯ ls -al Brewfile
-rw-r--r--  1 Preet staff  3783 18 Jul 09:26 Brewfile
❯ brew bundle cleanup --force --file Brewfile --global
Error: No Brewfile found
❯ brew bundle cleanup --force  --global
Error: No Brewfile found

It finds the Brewfile if I remove --global, but then not everything gets removed.

The outcome I'm after is remove all my apps.

[gromgit]

brew bundle cleanup --force --file Brewfile --global

Most *nix commands follow a "last option wins" pattern when multiple conflicting options are presented. What you're experiencing is entirely explained by that, and you'll have to choose one or the other, the local or global Brewfile. If you want both, you'll have to combine the two yourself, something like:

brew bundle cleanup --force --file <(cat Brewfile ~/.Brewfile)

That said, brew bundle should probably complain about conflicting options.

[gromgit]

That said, brew bundle should probably complain about conflicting options.

That's now been addressed: Homebrew/brew#20276

[preetmyob]

brew bundle cleanup --force --file Brewfile --global

Most *nix commands follow a "last option wins" pattern when multiple conflicting options are presented. What you're experiencing is entirely explained by that, and you'll have to choose one or the other, the local or global Brewfile. If you want both, you'll have to combine the two yourself, something like:

brew bundle cleanup --force --file <(cat Brewfile ~/.Brewfile)

That said, brew bundle should probably complain about conflicting options.

@gromgit Thank you for explaining. I didn't realise that there was a global Brewfile. Is this something I might have created, or is it a system thing? I don't have a ~/.Brewfile, I have only ever created a local file using brew bundle dump --file=Brewfile --force -v in my local folder.

[gromgit]

I don't have a ~/.Brewfile, I have only ever created a local file

Then you shouldn't be specifying --global, since that tells brew bundle to look for that specific file. Please read the brew man page carefully, specifically the brew bundle options. Everything you need to know about --file and --global, and why it makes no sense to use both at the same time, is in there.

[preetmyob]

I don't have a ~/.Brewfile, I have only ever created a local file

Then you shouldn't be specifying --global, since that tells brew bundle to look for that specific file. Please read the brew man page carefully, specifically the brew bundle options. Everything you need to know about --file and --global, and why it makes no sense to use both at the same time, is in there.

Thank you.

I've used https://github.com/homebrew/install#uninstall-homebrew just to uninstall it all including homebrew.

[gromgit]

I've used https://github.com/homebrew/install#uninstall-homebrew just to uninstall it all including homebrew.

That was pretty extreme. Did brew bundle cleanup --force --file Brewfile not work for you?