paccat -- print pacman package files

Morganamilo · 2021-10-14 01:39:31

For a long time I've wanted an easy way to inspect pacman package files, mainly config files. And so paccat was born.

You can inspect a file as simple as

paccat pacman -- pacman.conf

You can even do weird things like

paccat --binary git -- git-add.1.gz | man --local-file -

I wrote this in a a few hours and have just released 0.1.0 so beware. I'll probably be adding a couple things here and there.

Last edited by Morganamilo (2021-10-14 02:22:45)

schard · 2021-10-14 08:59:09

Sounds like a nice feature. Do you see a possibility to get this into pacman-contrib?

Morganamilo · 2021-10-14 09:29:16

I'm panning on just pushing it to community as it's own package if there's interest and when I've released version 1.0.

pacman-contrib does not contains any rust code and it's already a mishmash of languages. I don't really want to add another new language to it.

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