scoop outdated command

[jkrehm]

One feature about I love about Mac's Homebrew that I'd love to see in scoop is an outdated command that I can run to quickly see which of my packages have updates to install. I don't necessarily want to install them all so scoop update * doesn't really fit the bill. Is there anything like this already? Nothing stood out to me when I ran scoop help.

If it's not too complex, I think it'd be a useful command to have available.

[lukesampson]

scoop status will show you if there are new versions to install. I just updated the help summary to mention that—thanks for pointing that out!

[jkrehm]

Sounds good to me. I'll close the request.

[andreyrd]

Would it be worth aliasing scoop outdated to scoop status for consistency with brew?

[borekb]

... and with npm and yarn. "outdated" is in my muscle memory now :)

[r15ch13]

This should do the trick: scoop alias add outdated 'scoop status'

[borekb]

That didn't work for me:

$ scoop alias add outdated 'scoop status'

$ scoop outdated
Usage: scoop <command> [<args>]

Some useful commands are:
...

[r15ch13]

Hm. Can you check if ~\scoop\shims contains a scoop-outdated.ps1 with this content:

# Summary: 
scoop status

[borekb]

The file exists but contains this:

# Summary: status
scoop

[r15ch13]

Maybe the ' where misinterpreted. Try scoop alias add outdated "scoop status"

[borekb]

That didn't help either. I usually live in Git Bash so I tried to switch to PowerShell for adding the alias and that worked, so it's shell-related.

I don't have much experience yet with running PowerShell scripts from Git Bash as not many binaries I run are written in this language / technology, so I'll need to explore it more.

[borekb]

scoop needs to be run via winpty to work in Git Bash, all works fine after I've set up this alias in .bashrc:

alias scoop='winpty scoop.cmd'