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Give a name and description to your workflow, and add an icon if you want. To save time, go to Templates > Essentials > Keyword to Terminal Command, and select that template. In the lower left of the screen click the plus button to create a new Workflow. Open Alfred Preferences, and navigate to the Workflows screen. We’re going to have eight commands run sequentially, so instead of having to type each of those commands manually and wait for each to run, we can type one keyword, have terminal open for us, and let it run in the background while we continue working. In this case, I’m going to make a keyword, brew, that when used will run a series of commands to check for updates of installed software, perform those updates, clean up outdated software versions, and check that everything is functioning properly. So with Alfred I can set keywords that run commands. Backwards maybe, but I want to show something simple that it can do before walking through setting it up. Similar to an overview of Alfred, I’ll give an overview of Homebrew later, but for now I’ll assume that you can setup both from those sites. This, along with Homebrew Cask allows me to manage most of the software that I use on my computer from the command line. I use Homebrew as a package manager for software on my Mac. The task that we’re setting up is going to be a keyword that will run a series of terminal commands for us. Powering Up Homebrew on Mac with Alfred What are we going to create?
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