Sometimes a command installed with Homebrew needs to be executed as root. A good example is nethogs, which needs elevated privileges to inspect network traffic. The problem is that this often fails:
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sudo nethogs |
even though this works:
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nethogs |
The reason is that sudo usually runs with a different, restricted PATH. Your normal shell can find […]
Unison, a powerful file synchronizer, has long been one of my favorite tools. However, installing Unison on macOS used to be a manual and sometimes cumbersome process, as detailed in my earlier guide. The great news is that Unison is now available as a Homebrew cask! This means you can install it with a single […]
I like Nerd Fonts a lot, and blogged about those in the past. If you spend a lot of time in the terminal, you’ve probably heard of them: they patch popular programming fonts with a huge set of icons, making your terminal and development environment look great and more informative. Here’s how you can easily […]
Updated 4 April 2025: I installed Linux on this laptop! 🙂 If you use the Homebrew package manager in macOS and you have macOS 12 because your Mac is too old to update to a new version of macOS, you can say goodbye to Homebrew: if you try to update your brew packages, you get […]