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Jovlang

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Registered: 2014-05-31

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absent: ABS helper

Just rewrote this. Been a few years since I first posted it, not sure how many know about it. I find it quite useful.
It's a bash script that's like AUR helpers, but for the ABS.

absent -S [name..]: build and install
absent -G [name..]: copy to the current directory
absent [string]: select from packages whose name matches the given substring

You can install it from the AUR. If you don't have an AUR helper:

$ bash <(curl https://raw.githubusercontent.com/stuartpb/aur.sh/master/aur.sh) -si absent

There are two variables you can modify through ~/.absentrc. Example:

searchdirs+=("/var/abs/multilib")
builddir="$HOME/abs"

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