Comments on: A bash loop, for pacman http://kmandla.wordpress.com/2011/04/01/a-bash-loop-for-pacman/ K.Mandla's blog of Linux experiences Mon, 11 Feb 2013 18:19:59 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Ryan Doenges http://kmandla.wordpress.com/2011/04/01/a-bash-loop-for-pacman/#comment-48939 Sun, 17 Apr 2011 04:27:36 +0000 http://kmandla.wordpress.com/2011/04/01/a-bash-loop-for-pacman/#comment-48939 the best choice there would be to say `pacman -Qsq` but if you are going to use cut, a quicker solution would be `awk {print $1}`

]]> By: Buffalo Pete http://kmandla.wordpress.com/2011/04/01/a-bash-loop-for-pacman/#comment-48741 Sat, 02 Apr 2011 16:47:16 +0000 http://kmandla.wordpress.com/2011/04/01/a-bash-loop-for-pacman/#comment-48741 Very nice, I’ve wanted to do just this on occasion before. And nicely adaptable too; to install all packages containing string FOO:

$ for i in `pacman -Ss | grep FOO | cut -d’ ‘ -f-1` ; do pacman -S ${i} ; done

]]> By: Kompromized http://kmandla.wordpress.com/2011/04/01/a-bash-loop-for-pacman/#comment-48736 Fri, 01 Apr 2011 20:56:00 +0000 http://kmandla.wordpress.com/2011/04/01/a-bash-loop-for-pacman/#comment-48736 Yes, get rid of as many of those unsigned Arch packages as you can…

]]> By: anon http://kmandla.wordpress.com/2011/04/01/a-bash-loop-for-pacman/#comment-48733 Fri, 01 Apr 2011 20:04:08 +0000 http://kmandla.wordpress.com/2011/04/01/a-bash-loop-for-pacman/#comment-48733 Was about to suggest the same thing as Garrett, they both do the same thing although plain old pacman should be a bit faster (probably not noticable anyway).

To add to the above, another good one to run when cleaning up an arch box is:

pacman -Rcsn $(pacman -Qdtq)

Pretty much the equivalent of debian’s:
apt-get autoremove && apt-get autoclean

]]> By: Garrett http://kmandla.wordpress.com/2011/04/01/a-bash-loop-for-pacman/#comment-48732 Fri, 01 Apr 2011 13:29:57 +0000 http://kmandla.wordpress.com/2011/04/01/a-bash-loop-for-pacman/#comment-48732 What about… `pacman -Rcsn $(pacman -Qsq xf86)`? The q option gets rid of the version numbers.

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