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Paccat

Print pacman package files

Usage

paccat [options] <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.

Examples

paccat grub -- etc/default/grub

Print the contents of 'etc/default/grub' from the grub package.


paccat pacman -- pacman.conf

Print the contents of the first file named 'pacman.conf' from the pacman package.


paccat -F -- pacman.conf

Print the contents of the first file named 'pacman.conf' in the repos


paccat -x pacman mkinitcpio -- '\\.conf^'

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

Print the contents of 'myfile' from a package tarball.


paccat https://archlinux.org/packages/extra/x86_64/git/download -- git-blame.1.gz

Download and print the contents of 'git-blame.1.gz' from the git package.";

Dependencies

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