How to print the pacman cache directory?

flan_suse · 2011-01-26 05:11:58

Is there a way to print the current cache directory with the pacman command? I know what it is set to, but for the sake of creating a script, how would you output the current pacman cache directory?

fukawi2 · 2011-01-26 05:20:05

/home/fukawi2 $ pacman -v
Root      : /
Conf File : /etc/pacman.conf
DB Path   : /var/lib/pacman/
Cache Dirs: /var/cache/pacman/pkg/  
Lock File : /var/lib/pacman/db.lck
Log File  : /var/log/pacman.log
Targets   : None

flan_suse · 2011-01-26 05:28:30

Totally overlooked that in the manpage. My eyes were searching for something exclusive to printing the cache directory.

This does the trick...

pacman -v | grep Cache | awk '{print $3}'

...and thank you fukawi2!

karol · 2011-01-26 05:46:11

If you don't change the location of the pacman config file, a single awk line will do

awk '/Cache/ {print $3}' /etc/pacman.conf

fukawi2 · 2011-01-26 10:50:40

karol wrote:

awk '/Cache/ {print $3}' /etc/pacman.conf

That's cool, thx

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#1 2011-01-26 05:11:58

How to print the pacman cache directory?

#2 2011-01-26 05:20:05

Re: How to print the pacman cache directory?

#3 2011-01-26 05:28:30

Re: How to print the pacman cache directory?

#4 2011-01-26 05:46:11

Re: How to print the pacman cache directory?

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Re: How to print the pacman cache directory?

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