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FAQ: update uninstall method

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Closes Homebrew/homebrew#38457.

Signed-off-by: Xu Cheng <xucheng@me.com>
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### How do I uninstall Homebrew? ### How do I uninstall Homebrew?
If you installed to `/usr/local` then you can use the script in [this To uninstall Homebrew, paste the command below in a terminal prompt.
gist](https://gist.github.com/1173223) to uninstall — it will only
remove Homebrew and the stuff Homebrew installed leaving anything else
in `/usr/local` alone.
Provided you haven’t put anything else in Homebrew’s prefix ```bash
(`brew --prefix`), you can generally just `rm -rf` that directory. This ruby -e "$(curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Homebrew/install/master/uninstall)"
is because Homebrew won’t touch files outside its prefix. ```
Download the [uninstall script](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Homebrew/install/master/uninstall)
and run `./uninstall --help` to view more uninstall options.
<a name="uninstall-package"></a> <a name="uninstall-package"></a>