[pacman-dev] [PATCH] Support reading package args from stdin
Xavier
chantry.xavier at gmail.com
Fri Nov 5 10:11:01 CET 2010
Dave Reisner 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
>
> This is better than using xargs, as xargs will not reconnect stdin to
> the terminal. The above operation performed using xargs would require
> the --noconfirm flag to be passed to pacman.
>
No objection for this, but with two more characters, you can already
pacman -Rs $(pacman -Qtdq)
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