Is there a command..

Dreameen · 2004-09-23 10:14:39

..to list all the installed packages sorted by size??

On Mandrake there was sth like:

rpm -qa --queryformat "%-30{NAME} %-15{INSTALLTIME} %-35{INSTALLTIME:date} %{SIZE}n"|sort -n +1

Maybe it can be translated into arch's language;)[/code]

zezaz · 2004-09-23 11:32:18

Dreameen wrote:

..to list all the installed packages sorted by size??

AFAIK there is not 1 command to do this. However the following script does the trick:

(for p in `pacman -Q | cut -d ' ' -f 1`; do echo -n "$p "; pacman -Qi $p | grep '^Size' | cut -d ' ' -f 13;  done ) | sort -n -t ' ' -k 2 -r

Remove the last -r if you want the smallest packages first

Dreameen · 2004-09-23 12:11:26

It works like charm:)

Whoever wrote this script must be skillful. 8)

zezaz · 2004-09-23 12:22:30

"Made in homebrew(tm)"

Thanks for your comment. To be honest, with some experience, you will see that it is not that hard to write such one-liners.

It is much harder to write big code that you still keep maintainable, readable, simple. This is really hard - and very interesting too.

Dusty · 2004-09-23 16:03:04

the magic of unix filters...

Arch Linux