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toofishes

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From: Chicago, IL

Registered: 2006-06-06

Posts: 602

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Just what everyone wanted: another colored pacman search

Didn't realize this was just worked on in a thread below, but here is my attempt at the colored pacman search. A few advantages besides being in color: if you have a local package that isn't in the sync directory, it will show up in the list; all packages installed are marked with a ***; each repo has its own color. It's pretty short and quick, but doesn't touch the AUR. I put it in /usr/bin as pacsearch, do what you please with it. Feel free to improve it or fix the TODO's I have left.

#!/bin/bash

#TODO: colors flag on commandline

readonly progname="pacsearch"

readonly BLUE='\e[0;34m'
readonly RED='\e[0;31m'
readonly GREEN='\e[0;32m'
readonly PURPLE='\e[0;35m'
readonly BROWN='\e[0;33m'
readonly CYAN='\e[0;36m'
readonly LRED='\e[1;31m'
readonly LCYAN='\e[1;36m'
readonly LGRAY='\e[0;37m'
readonly BASE='\e[0;37m'

if [ -z "$1" ]; then
    echo "Usage: $progname <pattern>"
    echo "Ex:    $progname ^gnome"
    exit 0
fi

# Make two temp files and send output of commands to these files
querydump=`mktemp`
pacman -Qs $1 > $querydump
syncdump=`mktemp`
pacman -Ss $1 > $syncdump

# Strip descriptions and 'local/' from -Qs query
instpkg=`mktemp`
egrep '^[^ ]' $querydump | sed -e 's@^local/@@' > $instpkg

# Add pkgs not in sync db, mark pkgs that are installed
cat $instpkg | while read -r pkg; do
    if [ -z "`grep "$pkg" $syncdump`" ]; then
        #TODO: only one line of descript is added, even if it is longer
        grep -A 1 "$pkg" $querydump >> $syncdump
    fi
    sed -i "s@^(.+/$pkg)@***1@" $syncdump
done

# Print colorized package list and descriptions to screen
echo -e "$(sed -r 
    -e "s@current/.*@$BLUE&$BASE@" 
    -e "s@extra/.*@$GREEN&$BASE@" 
    -e "s@community/.*@$PURPLE&$BASE@" 
    -e "s@testing/.*@$CYAN&$BASE@" 
    -e "s@unstable/.*@$RED&$BASE@" 
    -e "s@custom/.*@$BROWN&$BASE@" 
    -e "s@local/.*@$LCYAN&$BASE@" 
    -e "s@(^|***)([[:alnum:]]*/.* .*)@1$CYAN2$BASE@" 
    -e "s@***@$LRED&@" 
    < $syncdump )"
echo -en "e[0m"

rm $querydump
rm $syncdump
rm $instpkg

mutlu_inek

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From: all over the place

Registered: 2006-11-18

Posts: 683

Re: Just what everyone wanted: another colored pacman search

Wonderful! I just found this and tried it out: it works perfectly!

Thank you!