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KnutKowalski

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Registered: 2023-12-11

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display all programs installed by me in terminal

Hello! I wanted to ask if anyone can tell me how or if I can display all programs installed by ME (not all associated packages) in Arch terminal.

Thanks!

Last edited by KnutKowalski (2023-12-11 12:26:09)

dogknowsnx

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Re: display all programs installed by me in terminal

Hi, and welcome to the forum!
Please have a read here: https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Pacman/Tips_and_tricks

KnutKowalski

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Re: display all programs installed by me in terminal

Thank you very much!
It's not 100% what I meant, but almost and helps me a lot.

WorMzy

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Re: display all programs installed by me in terminal

If 'explicitly installed' doesn't meet your criteria, could you elaborate on why not?

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Nebulosa

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Re: display all programs installed by me in terminal

I'm using this script:

#!/bin/bash

# https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Pacman/Tips_and_tricks#Packages_and_dependencies
## sudo pacman -Syu --needed expac

echo -e  "\033[1mFrom repository:\033[0m"
expac -H M "%011m\t%-20n\t%10d" $(comm -23 <(pacman -Qqen | sort) <((expac -l '\n' '%E' base-devel; expac -l '\n' '%E' base) | sort -u))
[ -n "$(pacman -Qm)"  ] && ( echo -e "\n\033[1mFrom AUR:\033[0m"; expac -H M "%011m\t%-20n\t%10d" $(pacman -Qqm) )

Trilby

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Re: display all programs installed by me in terminal

The OP asked for programs not packages.  But the "installed by me" is vague - what do you mean by that.  You can use `find` to find all executables in your PATH, e.g., I use:

IFS=:; find $PATH -type f -executable -exec basename '{}' \;

But for gnu find that'd be a bit different:

find $(echo $PATH | tr : '\n') -type f -executable -printf "%P\n"

If you want the subset of this list that includes only programs that were installed as part of a package (i.e., managed by pacman) then just add a filter, e.g.:

find $(echo $PATH | tr : '\n') -type f -executable | sort >| /tmp/executable.list

pacman -Qlq | sort | comm -12 - /tmp/executable.list | sed 's|.*/||g'

Or if you use bash and like ugly commands you can use the obfuscated code - I mean process substitution - approach:

find $(echo $PATH | tr : '\n') -type f -executable | sort | comm -12 - <(pacman -Qlq | sort) | sed 's|.*/||g'

Last edited by Trilby (2023-12-11 15:07:25)

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seth

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Re: display all programs installed by me in terminal

grep -Ehr '^Name=' /usr/share/applications  ~/.local/share/applications | sort -u

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