[SOLVED] Getting pacman to use a text file as input

DarksideEE7 · 2010-10-19 23:39:35

I would like to know if there is a way to make pacman use a text file as it's input to install a long list of packages. The list I have was generated using:

sudo pacman -Q > pacman.out

I tried

sudo pacman -S < pacman.out

Is this possible? Thanks

Last edited by DarksideEE7 (2010-10-20 01:41:39)

jasonwryan · 2010-10-19 23:46:31

Yes: http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Pac … d_packages

DarksideEE7 · 2010-10-19 23:49:11

Awesome, thanks.

lilsirecho · 2010-10-19 23:50:22

Perhaps this procedure generated by karol will help:

 ls "kde" |grep 4.5.1 |xargs pacman -U

It might need some modding but is the general idea.....

falconindy · 2010-10-20 00:09:42

If you still want to be able to pipe to pacman, I wrote a fairly non-invasive patch to do just that. I find it more unix'like, and xargs requires --no-confirm which is kinda icky.

Allan · 2010-10-20 00:55:05

falconindy wrote:

If you still want to be able to pipe to pacman, I wrote a fairly non-invasive patch to do just that. I find it more unix'like, and xargs requires --no-confirm which is kinda icky.

I still have that patch flagged on my TODO list... so it is not completely lost!

DarksideEE7 · 2010-10-20 01:12:09

Well I'm not sure if I will be able to use the file in it's current format since I used:

sudo pacman -Q > laptop.pacman

to generate the file, so the version is after the package.

If anyone has any suggestions on how to remove the version column (using awk, sed, column, or something....) I would appreciate it. I have very limited experience with awk and sed.

For instance, colunn -t | pacman.out results in output with it separated:

xvidcore                                     1.2.2-1
xz                                           4.999.9beta_174_g41bc-1
yajl                                         1.0.9-3
yaourt                                       0.9.4.3-1
yasm                                         1.0.1-1
zenity                                       2.32.0-1
zip                                          3.0-1
zlib                                         1.2.5-2
zvbi                                         0.2.33-2

If someone knows how to remove the last column then this would solve my problem:

sudo pacman -S $(< laptop.pacman)

EDIT:
This did it.

cut -d ' ' -f 1 laptop.pacman

BTW if you want to install from the AUR this works for Clyde as well. Thanks for the help everyone.

Last edited by DarksideEE7 (2010-10-20 01:39:27)

falconindy · 2010-10-20 02:06:50

As you discovered, you can use cut...

You can also use awk!

print '{ print $1 }' laptop.pacman

Or sed!

sed 's/ .*//' laptop.pacman

Or just bash!

while read package version; do echo $package; done < laptop.pacman

Or ed!

ed -s laptop.pacman <<< $',s/ .*//g\n,p'

Allan wrote:

falconindy wrote:
If you still want to be able to pipe to pacman, I wrote a fairly non-invasive patch to do just that. I find it more unix'like, and xargs requires --no-confirm which is kinda icky.
I still have that patch flagged on my TODO list... so it is not completely lost!

Oooh. I figured it was tossed out, since Dan and yourself didn't seem all that interested. /me waits patiently.

DarksideEE7 · 2010-10-20 02:09:15

Yea I need to use awk and sed more....they are very powerful tools. My experience with them is limited to a basic tutorial.

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#1 2010-10-19 23:39:35

[SOLVED] Getting pacman to use a text file as input

#2 2010-10-19 23:46:31

Re: [SOLVED] Getting pacman to use a text file as input

#3 2010-10-19 23:49:11

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#4 2010-10-19 23:50:22

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#5 2010-10-20 00:09:42

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#6 2010-10-20 00:55:05

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#7 2010-10-20 01:12:09

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