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unnilquadium

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Registered: 2017-08-27

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[SOLVED] pacman Post transaction hooks with color

Hello.

I've created a post transaction hook to clear the pacman cache using the paccache script as suggested here: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/pa … kage_cache

When using the script directly it returns messages with color.
Is there anyway to keep the colored output when the script is used in a hook?

Thanks.

Last edited by unnilquadium (2017-09-04 13:16:30)

Trilby

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Re: [SOLVED] pacman Post transaction hooks with color

see --color in `man pacman`.

EDIT: oops, the section you linked to first had pacman commands, but you said you are using paccache - that likely has similar flags - (edit2) or maybe not.  It seems this is hardcoded into the script starting on line 475.  But it is just a script, you could readily edit that block (from 475-493).

Last edited by Trilby (2017-09-04 10:56:47)

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unnilquadium

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Re: [SOLVED] pacman Post transaction hooks with color

ok, it worked by editing that section and leaving it like this:

unset ALL_OFF BOLD BLUE GREEN RED YELLOW

ALL_OFF="$(tput sgr0)"
BOLD="$(tput bold)"
BLUE="${BOLD}$(tput setaf 4)"
GREEN="${BOLD}$(tput setaf 2)"
RED="${BOLD}$(tput setaf 1)"
YELLOW="${BOLD}$(tput setaf 3)"

readonly ALL_OFF BOLD BLUE GREEN RED YELLOW

Thanks

eschwartz

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Re: [SOLVED] pacman Post transaction hooks with color

You can always submit a patch to pacman-contrib to accept --color=[always|auto|never] or similar.

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