[pacman-dev] [PATCH] Restore usage line for -Fh

Allan McRae allan at archlinux.org
Thu Nov 26 12:02:33 UTC 2020


On 26/11/20 6:53 am, Colin Woodbury wrote:
> Unlike the other main commands, -F was missing its top-level usage line in its
> help output.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Colin Woodbury <colin at fosskers.ca>
> ---
>  src/pacman/pacman.c | 2 ++
>  1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)
> 
> diff --git a/src/pacman/pacman.c b/src/pacman/pacman.c
> index fefd3fa4..69e2e42a 100644
> --- a/src/pacman/pacman.c
> +++ b/src/pacman/pacman.c
> @@ -176,6 +176,8 @@ static void usage(int op, const char * const myname)
>  			printf("%s:  %s {-T --deptest} [%s] [%s]\n", str_usg, myname, str_opt, str_pkg);
>  			printf("%s:\n", str_opt);
>  		} else if(op == PM_OP_FILES) {
> +			printf("%s:  %s {-F --files} [%s] [%s]\n", str_usg, myname, str_opt, str_pkg);

This gives:

usage:  pacman {-F --files} [options] [package(s)]

but "pacman -F" also takes file paths or regex as an argument, not just
package names.

> +			printf("%s:\n", str_opt);
>  			addlist(_("  -l, --list           list the files owned by the queried package\n"));
>  			addlist(_("  -q, --quiet          show less information for query and search\n"));
>  			addlist(_("  -x, --regex          enable searching using regular expressions\n"));
> 


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