How can i find pathname of a file in macosx without moving to the specific directory where the file is located?

i want to go to specific file without searching for it by going in to all the directories and typing ls and all i know the file name and i want its path with just filename.Please help im new to unix programming and im interested in learning it thoroughly.And i have homebrew and iTerm (zsh) … Read more

Homebrew install older packages

When searching for an older version of a package – specifically phantomjs 1.9.8 – with Homebrew on Mac, it returns: If you meant “phantomjs” specifically: It was migrated from caskroom/cask to homebrew/core. Is there a way to get older versions? I’m on homebrew version 1.3.5 Answer I don’t see alternative versions from my side. > … Read more

Homebrew cannot uninstall installed packages?

My local filesystem shows: /usr/local/Homebrew/Library/Taps/homebrew/homebrew-cask/Casks/macwinzipper.rb /usr/local/Homebrew/Library/Taps/homebrew/homebrew-cask/Casks/winzip.rb Yet, homebrew says I don’t have such packages: ~ % brew uninstall winzip Error: Cask ‘winzip’ is not installed. ~ % brew uninstall –cask winzip Error: Cask ‘winzip’ is not installed. ~ % brew uninstall –cask macwinzipper Error: Cask ‘macwinzipper’ is not installed. ~ % brew uninstall macwinzipper Error: … Read more

Python 3.7.4 – Cant use installed packages (macOS)

So I have python 3.7.4 installed under macOS High Sierra 10.13.6 using brew (brew install python) and I am having some problems with it. First off, even though this is minor, I am wondering if this is contributing to it; When brew installs python, it says the following: Python has been installed as /usr/local/bin/python3 Unversioned … Read more

Node works globally but not in a specific directory after brew install yarn

MacOS Mojave here. When I installed yarn with brew install, I couldn’t run node (and thus npm). I went through a fair amount of troubleshooting steps that essentially forced uninstalled node and removed symlinks to node files in /usr/bin. I then installed nvm and successfully installed node. But, when I run node -v in a … Read more