Homebrew now sends usage information to Google Analytics

Re:Homebrew now sends usage information to Google Analytics by tristor on Monday April 25, 2016 @06:07PM (#11567773)

Here's a quick and dirty way to opt out for BASH and ZSH users for easy copy/pasting.

BASH:

  cat <<EOF >> .bashrc
  # Opt out of Homebrew analytics
  export HOMEBREW_NO_ANALYTICS=1
  if [[ -e "$HOME/.homebrew_analytics_user_uuid" ]]; then
    rm -f "$HOME/.homebrew_analytics_user_uuid"
  fi
  EOF

ZSH:

  cat <<EOF >> .zshrc
  # Opt out of Homebrew analytics
  export HOMEBREW_NO_ANALYTICS=1
  if [[ -e "$HOME/.homebrew_analytics_user_uuid" ]]; then
    rm -f "$HOME/.homebrew_analytics_user_uuid"
  fi
  EOF

Cheers.

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Re:Homebrew now sends usage information to Google Analytics by alainv on Monday April 25, 2016 @06:24PM (#11567886)

`rm -f` ignores nonexistent files so you could omit the `if` to be concise.

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Re:Homebrew now sends usage information to Google Analytics by tristor on Monday April 25, 2016 @10:51PM (#11569106)

Good call. I was mainly using `-f` to suppress the prompt about deleting the file, but you're correct, it's unnecessary to have the if statement in this case.

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Re:Homebrew now sends usage information to Google Analytics by hk__2 on Monday April 25, 2016 @06:24PM (#11567889)

You don’t need to remove that file; the whole point of this env variable is that it stops Homebrew from sending any data. It won’t even be created if that variable is set.

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Re:Homebrew now sends usage information to Google Analytics by tristor on Monday April 25, 2016 @10:52PM (#11569109)

That's only true if the variable is set before the first instance when data would have been sent, otherwise the file will exist (as it did on my system).

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