NAME
paccat - Print pacman package files
SYNOPSIS
paccat [options] <target> <files> paccat [options] [targets] -- <files> paccat [options] -<Q|F> <files> paccat [options] <-Q|-F> [targets] -- <files>
a target can be specified as:
<pkgname>, <repo>/<pkgname>, <url> or <file>.
files can be specified as just the filename or the full path.
DESCRIPTION
Print pacman package files.
paccat prints files from packages independent of your system by downloading the needed packages and extracting the needed files.
SYNTAX HIGHLIGHTING
paccat will use bat for syntax highlighting if it is installed.
OPTIONS
- -F, --files
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Use files database to search for files before downloading.
- -Q, --query
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Use local database to search for files before downloading.
- -r, --root <path>
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Set an alternative root directory.
- -b, --dbpath <path>
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Set an alternative database location.
- --config <file>
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Use an alternative pacman.conf.
- --color <when>
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Specify when to enable coloring. Valid options are always, never, or auto.
- -y, --refresh
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Download fresh package databases from the server. Pass twice to force download even if databases are up to date.
- --cachedir <path>
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Set the primary cache directory.
This directory will be the preferred directory for downloading package if writable. The other configured directories will still be used for reading.
- -a, --all
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print all matching files instead of just the first.
- -x, --regex
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Enable searching using regular expressions.
- --binary
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Print binary files
- -X, --executable
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Filter results to executable files.
- -e, --extract
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Extract matched files to the current directory.
- -l, --list
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Print file names instead of file content.
- -i, --install
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Install matched files to the system.
- --debug
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Display debug messages.
- -h, --help
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Print help information.
- -V, --version
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Print version information.
EXAMPLES
- paccat grub etc/default/grub
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Print the contents of 'etc/default/grub' from the grub package.
- paccat pacman pacman.conf
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Print the contents of the first file named 'pacman.conf' from the pacman package.
- paccat -F pacman.conf
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Print the contents of the first file named 'pacman.conf' in the repos
- paccat -x pacman mkinitcpio -- '\.conf$'
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Print the contents of all files ending in '.conf' from both the pacman and mkinitcpio packages.
- paccat ~/pkgs/my-pkg-1.0.0-1.pkg.tar.zst myfile
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Print the contents of 'myfile' from a package tarball.
- paccat https://archlinux.org/packages/extra/x86_64/git/download git-blame.1.gz
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Download and print the contents of 'git-blame.1.gz' from the git package.";
SEE ALSO
BUGS
Please report bugs to our GitHub page https://github.com/Morganamilo/paccat.
AUTHORS
Morgan <[email protected]>