I want to split up my Brewfile into multiple Brewfiles to separate some programs and apps into different sections and I can do some easy customisation of new MacOS machines and install specific Brewfiles for certain packages.

Here is a link to the docs I read. Now I'm trying to use the file or brewfile commands to load a Brewfile.

Here is a short example of what I have and what I believe should be working:

brewfile "brewfiles/work.Brewfile"
brewfile "brewfiles/devtools.Brewfile"

The files exist and should be valid Brewfiles. When I run a brew bundle command, I get this error:

❯ brew bundle check --verbose
Error: Invalid Brewfile: undefined method `brewfile' for an instance of Bundle::Dsl

I don't understand because the docs I've linked directly talk about this command, so I don't know why it is "undefined".

Using the file command gives the exact same error but swap brewfile for file.

I want to split up my Brewfile into multiple Brewfiles to separate some programs and apps into different sections and I can do some easy customisation of new MacOS machines and install specific Brewfiles for certain packages.

Here is a link to the docs I read. Now I'm trying to use the file or brewfile commands to load a Brewfile.

Here is a short example of what I have and what I believe should be working:

brewfile "brewfiles/work.Brewfile"
brewfile "brewfiles/devtools.Brewfile"

The files exist and should be valid Brewfiles. When I run a brew bundle command, I get this error:

❯ brew bundle check --verbose
Error: Invalid Brewfile: undefined method `brewfile' for an instance of Bundle::Dsl

I don't understand because the docs I've linked directly talk about this command, so I don't know why it is "undefined".

Using the file command gives the exact same error but swap brewfile for file.

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2 Answers 2

Judging by the documentation here the command you should be using with brewfiles is brew file, not brew bundle.

(homebrew-bundle (brew bundle) is a separate project.)

I posted on HomeBrew's bundle GitHub repo and quickly found out that this is a different tool, you can see it here: https://github/rcmdnk/homebrew-file

https://github/Homebrew/homebrew-bundle/issues/1633#event-16602768675 is my GitHub issue.