pacman-esearch

Print verbose information about packages matching a regular expression

Inspired by https://github.com/fuzzyray/esearch

Features

• Output and options similar to Gentoo esearch
• Search index
• Support for regular expressions and filters (list of all options can be obtained by -h)
• Print information about all matched packages at the same time (unlike pacman -Si)

Installation

From AUR

git clone https://aur.archlinux.org/esearch.git && cd esearch && makepkg -si

From source

Clone this repository:

git clone https://github.com/KLZ-0/pacman-esearch.git && cd pacman-esearch

Compile the executable:

make

Install to /usr/bin/:

sudo make install

Create the search index after installation:

eupdatedb

NOTE: the search index is stored in $HOME/.cache/esearch/ on per-user basis so run eupdatedb as regular user (the one who will be using esearch) -- For example the search index for user john will be stored in /home/john/.cache/esearch/

Usage

eupdatedb [-q|--quiet]

-q, --quiet displays nothing, just update the search index - can be used in cron jobs or other scripts (Don't forget to set the HOME variable explicitly when the system crontab is used).

esearch [options] <pattern>

--verbose, -v Print even more information about packages

--instonly, -I Find only packages which are installed

--notinst, -N Find only packages which are NOT installed

--nocolor, -n Don't use ANSI codes for colored output

--nowarndb, -w Do not complain about database age

--exact-match, -e Show only exact match

--version, -V Show version

--help, -h Show help message

Requirements

• GCC
• CMake
• Python 3