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JezdziecBezNicka

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iwant -- blitz fast pacman wrapper

Here's a pacman front-end I use.

The syntax is:
i want vim
#or
i want vim!
#or
i need vim.
#or
i need vim, emacs and gedit!
etc.

Whatever suits you best.

It's still beta, so some advanced features might not work. Here's the source code:

#!/usr/bin/env ruby
(puts('what?');exit(1)) unless (ARGV[0] && ARGV[1] && %w[want need].include?(ARGV[0].downcase))
system "sudo pacman -S #{ARGV[1..-1].join(' ').gsub(/[,!\.]|\band\b/, ' ')}"

EDIT: Of course, save it as i somewhere in your $PATH

Last edited by JezdziecBezNicka (2010-04-25 09:13:01)

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lilsirecho

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Re: iwant -- blitz fast pacman wrapper

What if the system is root only?

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lucke

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Re: iwant -- blitz fast pacman wrapper

Fantastic, I say.

mar77i

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Re: iwant -- blitz fast pacman wrapper

I don't get your script except that it does the same as pacman... And it needs to load ruby.

This I have in my ~/.bashrc , which actually saves me re- and typing of stuff...

# pacman wrapper with wait and auto-sudo
pacman() {
    if [[ -f /var/lib/pacman/db.lck ]]; then
        if pgrep pacman >/dev/null; then
            echo "error: pacman seems to be running. waiting..." >&2
            while [[ -f /var/lib/pacman/db.lck ]]; do
                sleep 1
            done
        fi
    fi
    if [[ $1 =~ ^-(S[yuc]+|Rd)$ || $1 == -[SRU] ]]; then
        sudo pacman "$@"
    else
        $(which pacman) "$@"  
    fi
}

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JezdziecBezNicka

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Re: iwant -- blitz fast pacman wrapper

I don't get your script except that it does the same as pacman... And it needs to load ruby

I was at a party and it was intended as a joke (felt funny back then:)

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evr

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Re: iwant -- blitz fast pacman wrapper

feature request:

'i can haz vim?' should reference 'pacman -Ss vim'

btw, i've never been to a party where i ended up writing a pacman wrapper

Hiato

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Re: iwant -- blitz fast pacman wrapper

Let me just say that this is, by far, the best pacman wrapper evar!

I suggest, on top of the 'i can haz', a 'i don't want' or some such:

i want more!
i don't need less.
i can haz most?

Last edited by Hiato (2010-04-26 21:03:52)

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JezdziecBezNicka

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Re: iwant -- blitz fast pacman wrapper

don't want inspired me.

#!/usr/bin/env ruby
exit(1) if (ARGV.empty?)
pacman = lambda do |pac_arg|
  system "sudo pacman #{pac_arg} #{$'.gsub(/[,!\.]|\band\b/, ' ')}"
end
case ARGV.join(' ')
when /^(want|need|like)/, /^would love to have/
  pacman.call('-S')
when /^dont (want|need)/
  pacman.call('-R')
when /^(really|definitively) dont (want|need)/, /^insist that you remove/, /^hate/, /^despise/
  pacman.call('-Rc')
when /^am looking for/
  pacman.call('-Ss')
else
  exit(1)
end

Now you can say: i insist that you remove kde! or i despise gnome

I wonder if I'll get tgn'd for this...

Last edited by JezdziecBezNicka (2010-04-26 21:50:13)

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lilsirecho

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Re: iwant -- blitz fast pacman wrapper

Does it work in root only?

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JezdziecBezNicka

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Re: iwant -- blitz fast pacman wrapper

I guess, if you have sudo installed...

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Re: iwant -- blitz fast pacman wrapper

no sudo just root

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JezdziecBezNicka

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Re: iwant -- blitz fast pacman wrapper

Then I guess not. Though you could just remove 'sudo' from line 4 of the script

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Re: iwant -- blitz fast pacman wrapper

I'll try that....................

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