Homebrew cellar doesn't seem to exist

Question

I've been using homebrew for a while on OSX Mavericks, however I'm now dealing with needing to add files to folders of those same installed programs.

Here's the issue, when typing:

$ brew info ant

I get /usr/local/Cellar/ant...., as does any of my installed programs. The issue is that the Cellar doesn't seem to exist on my computer. When I search from Spotlight it finds no usr folder, with the exception of some nested within my Eclipse folder that hasn't been used for years. When I attempt to:

$ cd ~/usr/

it, too, doesn't exist. Also NO folder on my computer exists called Cellar (that Spotlight can find)

Does homebrew store this folder in some hidden way? (I'm hesitant to think this is the case, since I have all hidden files shown)

Answer 1

While in the Finder, enter Cmd+Shift+G and enter /usr/local/Cellar in the dialog that pops up.

Alternately, in Terminal.app (or whatever terminal program you're using), enter open /usr/local/Cellar at a prompt.

Both will open up a new Finder window to the homebrew Cellar directory.

You can verify that the Cellar directory is in the default location with brew --cellar in the terminal.