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I would like to find the size of my installed brew packages so I can see how much space each is taking up. How do I go about doing this from the terminal?
Note:
some of the answers below also include brew cask packages which is also very helpful to this answer.

Answer 1

riffing off of PTao's solution, here's an ugly improved version which will include a human-readable sum of the combined sized of all package versions
for pkg in `brew list --formula -1 | egrep -v '\.|\.\.'`
do echo $pkg `brew info $pkg | egrep '[0-9]* files, ' | sed 's/^.*[0-9]* files, \(.*\)).*$/\1/' | awk '{print $1;}/[0-9]$/{s+=$1};/[mM][bB]$/{s+=$1*(1024*1024);next};/[kK][bB]$/{s+=$1*1024;next} END { suffix=" KMGT"; for(i=1; s>1024 && i < length(suffix); i++) s/=1024; printf "\t(all versions: %0.1f%s)",s,substr(suffix, i, 1), $3; }'`
done
example output:
ack 173.5KB 178.4KB 182.7KB 190.5KB (all versions: 725.1K)
afl-fuzz 556.5KB 561.3KB (all versions: 1.1M)
aircrack-ng 934.2KB 953KB (all versions: 1.8M)
autoconf 1.9MB (all versions: 1.9M)
autojump 325.4KB (all versions: 325.4K)
automake 2.9MB 3.0MB 3MB (all versions: 8.9M)
bash-completion 608.6KB (all versions: 608.6K)
boost 414.6MB 398.7MB (all versions: 813.3M)
cairo 5.9MB 5.9MB (all versions: 11.8M)
cask 166.6KB (all versions: 166.6K)
cmake 31.4MB (all versions: 31.4M)
coreutils 8.5MB 7.9MB 9MB (all versions: 25.4M)
curl 3MB (all versions: 3.0M)
dos2unix 344.4KB 360.5KB (all versions: 704.9K)
ebook-tools 69.6KB 70.5KB (all versions: 140.1K)
eigen 3.5MB 6.5MB (all versions: 10.0M)

Answer 2

brew list --formula | xargs -n1 -P8 -I {} \
sh -c "brew info {} | egrep '[0-9]* files, ' | sed 's/^.*[0-9]* files, \(.*\)).*$/{} \1/'" | \
sort -h -r -k2 - | column -t
It display brews like below in sorted form (by size):

Answer 3

It's not exceedingly pretty, but you can do
$ brew list --formula | xargs brew info
And it will output something along the lines of
...
/usr/local/Cellar/ant/1.9.6 (1,611 files, 34.8M)
Poured from bottle on 2016-03-31 at 09:35:41
/usr/local/Cellar/ant/1.9.7 (1,611 files, 34.9M) *
Poured from bottle on 2016-12-15 at 09:58:56
..
for each package you have installed. I'm sure some wizard with grep could make this give you a nice table if you have many taps installed.

Answer 4

Colored list of all brew packages with size (and overall size of all versions)
for pkg in `brew list -f1 | egrep -v '\.|\.\.'`
do echo $pkg `brew info $pkg | egrep '[0-9]* files, ' | sed 's/^.*[0-9]* files, \(.*\)).*$/\1/' | awk '{print "\033[1;32m"$1;}/[0-9]$/{s+=$1};/[mM][bB]$/{s+=$1*(1024*1024);next};/[kK][bB]$/{s+=$1*1024;next} END { suffix=" KBMBGBTB"; for(i=1; s>1024 && i < length(suffix); i+=2) s/=1024; printf "\033[0m\t(all versions: \033[33m%0.1f %s\033[0m)",s,substr(suffix, i, 2), $3; }'`
done
Output looks like this:

Answer 5

This shell snippet from https://gist.github.com/eguven/23d8c9fc78856bd20f65f8bcf03e691b will help you
for pkg in `brew list -f1 | egrep -v '\.|\.\.'`
do echo $pkg `brew info $pkg | egrep '[0-9]* files, ' | sed 's/^.*[0-9]* files, \(.*\)).*$/\1/'`
done

Answer 6

On version Homebrew 2.7.5
Following command throw an error
brew list | xargs brew info | egrep --color '\d*\.\d*(KB|MB|GB)'
Error: Calling brew list to only list formulae is disabled! Use brew list --formula instead.
After adding --formula to brew list command it worked.
brew list --formula | xargs brew info | egrep --color '\d*\.\d*(KB|MB|GB)'