uninstall was not clean

[ssreekanth]

Tried uninstalling linuxbrew on centos 6.5, but saw some warnings/errors -

-e:5: command not found: command -v brew
/usr/bin/find: unknown predicate `-E'

Full output -

$ ruby -e "$(curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Linuxbrew/install/master/uninstall)"
-e:5: command not found: command -v brew
Warning: This script will remove:
/home/testuser/.cache/Homebrew/
/home/testuser/.linuxbrew/.git/
/home/testuser/.linuxbrew/.github/
/home/testuser/.linuxbrew/.gitignore
/home/testuser/.linuxbrew/.travis.yml
/home/testuser/.linuxbrew/.yardopts
/home/testuser/.linuxbrew/CODEOFCONDUCT.md
/home/testuser/.linuxbrew/LICENSE.txt
/home/testuser/.linuxbrew/Library/
/home/testuser/.linuxbrew/README.md
/home/testuser/.linuxbrew/bin/brew
/home/testuser/.linuxbrew/etc/bash_completion.d/brew
/home/testuser/.linuxbrew/share/doc/homebrew/
/home/testuser/.linuxbrew/share/man/man1/brew.1
/home/testuser/.linuxbrew/share/zsh/site-functions/_brew
Are you sure you want to uninstall Homebrew? [y/N] y
==> Removing Homebrew installation...
/usr/bin/find: unknown predicate `-E'
Warning: Failed during: /usr/bin/find -E /home/testuser/.linuxbrew/bin /home/testuser/.linuxbrew/etc /home/testuser/.linuxbrew/share -regex .*/info/([^.][^/]*.info|dir) -exec /bin/bash -c /usr/bin/install-info\ --delete\ --quiet\ {}\ "$(dirname\ {})/dir" ;
==> Removing empty directories...
Warning: Homebrew partially uninstalled (but there were steps that failed)!
To finish uninstalling rerun this script with `sudo`.
The following possible Homebrew files were not deleted:
/home/testuser/.linuxbrew/docker.test.yml
/home/testuser/.linuxbrew/Dockerfile
/home/testuser/.linuxbrew/lib64 -> /home/testuser/.linuxbrew/lib
You may consider to remove them by yourself.

Also, it says "To finish uninstalling rerun this script with sudo". Why do we need 'sudo', if we installed brew and other packages locally as normal user?

[rwhogg]

Thanks a bunch for the bug report @ssreekanth! Nevertheless, marking as a duplicate of #26.

As for the references to sudo, that's because this was forked from Homebrew, where the usual location is /usr/local, which would usually require admin privileges to clean up.