[pacman-dev] [PATCH] Support reading package args from stdin

Dan McGee dpmcgee at gmail.com
Sat Jul 24 10:21:32 EDT 2010


On Fri, Jul 23, 2010 at 10:26 PM, Dave Reisner <d at falconindy.com> wrote:
> Only occurs if no arguments were provided directly. Arguments can be
> separated by any amount of valid whitespace. This allows for piping into
> pacman from other programs or from itself, e.g.:
>
>  pacman -Qdtq | pacman -Rs

What's wrong with xargs?

-Dan


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