How to Uninstall Brew on Mac

If you want to uninstall Brew (Homebrew) on your Mac, you can simply use the install script provided by brew's GitHub repository,

/bin/bash -c "$(curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Homebrew/install/HEAD/uninstall.sh)"

Source: https://github.com/homebrew/install#uninstall-homebrew

% /bin/bash -c "$(curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Homebrew/install/HEAD/uninstall.sh)"

Warning: This script will remove:
/Users/c2c/Library/Caches/Homebrew/
/Users/c2c/Library/Logs/Homebrew/
/opt/homebrew/.dockerignore
/opt/homebrew/.editorconfig
/opt/homebrew/.git/
/opt/homebrew/.github/
/opt/homebrew/.gitignore
/opt/homebrew/.shellcheckrc
/opt/homebrew/.sublime/
/opt/homebrew/.vale.ini
/opt/homebrew/.vscode/
/opt/homebrew/CHANGELOG.md
/opt/homebrew/CONTRIBUTING.md
/opt/homebrew/Caskroom/
/opt/homebrew/Cellar/
/opt/homebrew/Dockerfile
/opt/homebrew/LICENSE.txt
/opt/homebrew/Library//
/opt/homebrew/README.md
/opt/homebrew/bin/brew
/opt/homebrew/completions/
/opt/homebrew/docs/
/opt/homebrew/manpages/

Are you sure you want to uninstall Homebrew? This will remove your installed packages! [y/N] y
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