# does the quickest output of brew --prefix possible for the basic cases:
# - `brew --prefix` (output HOMEBREW_PREFIX)
# - `brew --prefix <formula>` (output HOMEBREW_PREFIX/opt/<formula>)
# anything else? delegate to the slower cmd/--prefix.rb
# HOMEBREW_PREFIX and HOMEBREW_REPOSITORY are set by brew.sh
# shellcheck disable=SC2154
homebrew-prefix() {
  while [[ "$#" -gt 0 ]]; do
      case $1 in
          # check we actually have --prefix and not e.g. --prefixsomething
          --prefix) local prefix="1"; shift ;;
          # reject all other flags
          -*) return 1 ;;
          *) [ -n "${formula}" ] && return 1; local formula="$1"; shift ;;
      esac
  done
  [ -z "${prefix}" ] && return 1
  [ -z "${formula}" ] && echo "${HOMEBREW_PREFIX}" && return 0

  local formula_path
  if [ -f "${HOMEBREW_REPOSITORY}/Library/Taps/homebrew/homebrew-core/Formula/${formula}.rb" ]; then
    formula_path="${HOMEBREW_REPOSITORY}/Library/Taps/homebrew/homebrew-core/Formula/${formula}.rb"
  else
    formula_path="$(
      shopt -s nullglob
      echo "${HOMEBREW_REPOSITORY}/Library/Taps"/*/*/{Formula/,HomebrewFormula/,}"${formula}.rb"
    )"
  fi
  [ -z "${formula_path}" ] && return 1

  echo "${HOMEBREW_PREFIX}/opt/${formula}"
  return 0
}