Re: [arch-general] script to reformat 'pacman -Ss' output into 2 readable columns (prevents blindness)
On 08/05/2010 10:51 PM, David C. Rankin wrote: Guys, I developed a script to help me read the output of pacman -Ss in 2 nicely formatted columns. The output of 'pacman -Ss srchterm' drives me nuts trying to read down the package names and descriptions with all the tab indented and wrapped text -- so I fixed it. Download the script here: http://www.3111skyline.com/dl/Archlinux/scripts/srch2list.sh snip Enjoy. I have played with the script a bit more so it provides the option to only show installed or uninstalled packages to minimize the stuff to look through. The current options to the script are: Options: NOTE: options can be given in any order, flags must be separate: '-d -z' NOT '-dz' -c | --color disable the use of an accent color for pkgnames. -d | --double option controls single/double spaced output. -h | --helpdisplay this help message. -i | --installed show only installed packages. -u | --uninstalled show only uninstalled packages. -w | --write filename write search results to 'filename'. -z | --zenity provide graphical output using 'zenity --list' (requires zenity) Two additional testing options (no effect on script): -v | --verbose dump select variables to the screen. -a | --array dump the array contents to the screen (requires -v option) -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E. Rankin Law Firm, PLLC 510 Ochiltree Street Nacogdoches, Texas 75961 Telephone: (936) 715-9333 Facsimile: (936) 715-9339 www.rankinlawfirm.com
Re: [arch-general] script to reformat 'pacman -Ss' output into 2 readable columns (prevents blindness)
On 08/10/2010 03:46 PM, David C. Rankin wrote: On 08/05/2010 10:51 PM, David C. Rankin wrote: Guys, I developed a script to help me read the output of pacman -Ss in 2 nicely formatted columns. The output of 'pacman -Ss srchterm' drives me nuts trying to read down the package names and descriptions with all the tab indented and wrapped text -- so I fixed it. Download the script here: http://www.3111skyline.com/dl/Archlinux/scripts/srch2list.sh snip Enjoy. I have played with the script a bit more so it provides the option to only show installed or uninstalled packages to minimize the stuff to look through. The current options to the script are: Options: NOTE: options can be given in any order, flags must be separate: '-d -z' NOT '-dz' -c | --color disable the use of an accent color for pkgnames. -d | --double option controls single/double spaced output. -h | --help display this help message. -i | --installed show only installed packages. -u | --uninstalled show only uninstalled packages. -w | --write filename write search results to 'filename'. -z | --zenity provide graphical output using 'zenity --list' (requires zenity) Two additional testing options (no effect on script): -v | --verbose dump select variables to the screen. -a | --array dump the array contents to the screen (requires -v option) Version 0.0.4 Changelog: - No functional changes - code clean up moving output routine to a function for readability. Todo: - Capture zenity package selection so selected packages can be automatically installed. (basically provide: pacman -Sy 'selected packages') -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E. Rankin Law Firm, PLLC 510 Ochiltree Street Nacogdoches, Texas 75961 Telephone: (936) 715-9333 Facsimile: (936) 715-9339 www.rankinlawfirm.com
Re: [arch-general] script to reformat 'pacman -Ss' output into 2 readable columns (prevents blindness)
On 08/10/2010 05:29 PM, David C. Rankin wrote: On 08/10/2010 03:46 PM, David C. Rankin wrote: On 08/05/2010 10:51 PM, David C. Rankin wrote: Guys, I developed a script to help me read the output of pacman -Ss in 2 nicely formatted columns. The output of 'pacman -Ss srchterm' drives me nuts trying to read down the package names and descriptions with all the tab indented and wrapped text -- so I fixed it. Download the script here: http://www.3111skyline.com/dl/Archlinux/scripts/srch2list.sh snip Whew - I have finally worked out the zenity install routine and I like it. I have also added the -n | --notext option that suppresses output of the list of search packages to the console. It is primarily for use with the -z | --zenity switch to allow the program to be run as a graphical program. Try it: srch2list.sh srchterm (or saved filename) -z -n and this will provide a graphical list with a checkbox for each package. You can select any number of packages you would like to install. Clicking 'Cancel' exits. Clicking 'OK' will bring up a confirmation dialog with the selected packages so the user can confirm the install --or-- modify the selection. Clicking 'Cancel' will again exit. Clicking 'OK' here will call pacman -Sy list of packages or will try 'sudo pacman' if run by other than root. The new option list is: Options: NOTE: options can be given in any order, flags must be separate: '-d -z' NOT '-dz' -c | --color disable the use of an accent color for pkgnames. -d | --double option controls single/double spaced output. -h | --helpdisplay this help message. -i | --installed show only installed packages. -n | --notext don't output list to console (use with -z). -u | --uninstalled show only uninstalled packages. -w | --write filename write search results to 'filename'. -z | --zenity provide graphical output using 'zenity --list' (requires zenity) Two additional testing options (no effect on script): -v | --verbose dump select variables to the screen. -a | --array dump the array contents to the screen (requires -v option) CHANGELOG: version 0.0.5 - Added to -n | --notext switch to suppress output of the list to the console - Added the ability to (1) select packages in the zenity list for install - Added confirm install dialog that allows modification and confirmation of packages to install with pacman -Sy TODO: - Perhaps add an initial searchterm or filename zenity dialog so this script can simply be run from a launcher on your desktop. Let me know if this is something that should be added to AUR or somewhere for people to find long after this email thread has died. Enjoy :p -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E. Rankin Law Firm, PLLC 510 Ochiltree Street Nacogdoches, Texas 75961 Telephone: (936) 715-9333 Facsimile: (936) 715-9339 www.rankinlawfirm.com
Re: [arch-general] script to reformat 'pacman -Ss' output into 2 readable columns (prevents blindness)
On 08/10/2010 09:31 PM, David C. Rankin wrote: On 08/10/2010 05:29 PM, David C. Rankin wrote: On 08/10/2010 03:46 PM, David C. Rankin wrote: On 08/05/2010 10:51 PM, David C. Rankin wrote: Guys, I developed a script to help me read the output of pacman -Ss in 2 nicely formatted columns. The output of 'pacman -Ss srchterm' drives me nuts trying to read down the package names and descriptions with all the tab indented and wrapped text -- so I fixed it. Download the script here: http://www.3111skyline.com/dl/Archlinux/scripts/srch2list.sh snip Version 0.0.6 - bugfix - added the command line select of only installed/uninstalled to zenity --list output :p -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E. Rankin Law Firm, PLLC 510 Ochiltree Street Nacogdoches, Texas 75961 Telephone: (936) 715-9333 Facsimile: (936) 715-9339 www.rankinlawfirm.com
Re: [arch-general] script to reformat 'pacman -Ss' output into 2 readable columns (prevents blindness)
On 06/08/10 19:40, Simon Stoakley wrote:
On 06/08/10 06:33, Dave Reisner wrote:
Hi.
Let's see what we can do about cutting back a little on the verbosity,
and upping the utility...
-
#!/bin/bash
pkg=()
desc=()
count=-1
Snip
Been messing around with this a little, added pacman -Qs option, single
space option (-d default) and some colours. Wrapped it in a function so
can call it pacside [-qs] schstring.
Thought I'd put it back up in case anyone's interested.
pacside() {
sidesch() {
bldblu='\e[1;34m' # Blue
bldwht='\e[1;37m' # White
txtrst='\e[0m'# Text Reset
pkg=()
desc=()
count=-1
WIDTH=${WIDTH:-70}
while read line; do
if [[ $line =~
^(testing|core|extra|community|community-testing|local)/* ]]; then
(( count++ ))
line=$(echo $line | echo $line |cut -d [ -f1 )
pkg[$count]=$line
continue
fi
desc[$count]+=$line
done
i=0
while (( i = $count )); do
IFS=$'\n' read -r -d'\0' -a blockdesc (fmt -w$WIDTH
${desc[i]})
paste -d' ' (printf ${bldblu}\t%-60s ${pkg[i]}) (echo
-e ${bldwht}${blockdesc[0]}${txtrst})
for line in ${blockde...@]:1}; do
printf ${bldwht}\t%-61s%s\n $line
done
(( ++i ))
[[ $1 != -s ]] echo
done
}
[[ -z $2 ]] pacman -Ss $1 | sidesch
[[ $1 == -s ]] pacman -Ss $2 | sidesch -s
[[ $1 == -q ]] pacman -Qs $2 | sidesch
[[ $1 == -sq ]] || [[ $1 == -qs ]] pacman -Qs $2 | sidesch -s
}
--
Re: [arch-general] script to reformat 'pacman -Ss' output into 2 readable columns (prevents blindness)
On Thu, Aug 05, 2010 at 10:51:45PM -0500, David C. Rankin wrote: Guys, I developed a script to help me read the output of pacman -Ss in 2 nicely formatted columns. The output of 'pacman -Ss srchterm' drives me nuts trying to read down the package names and descriptions with all the tab indented and wrapped text -- so I fixed it. Download the script here: http://www.3111skyline.com/dl/Archlinux/scripts/srch2list.sh Hi, I'm new to Arch and to the list but wanted to say thanks for posting this up. I've found pacman a great tool for getting what I need installed, but browsing and looking around it was tricky - this script is really useful for that. Thanks, Nigel
Re: [arch-general] script to reformat 'pacman -Ss' output into 2 readable columns (prevents blindness)
On 06/08/10 06:33, Dave Reisner wrote:
Hi.
Let's see what we can do about cutting back a little on the verbosity,
and upping the utility...
-
#!/bin/bash
pkg=()
desc=()
count=-1
WIDTH=${WIDTH:-50}
while read line; do
if [[ $line =~ ^(testing|core|extra|community|community-testing)/* ]]; then
(( count++ ))
pkg[count]=$line
continue
fi
desc[count]+=$line
done
i=0
while (( i= count )); do
IFS=$'\n' read -r -d'\0' -a blockdesc (fmt -w$WIDTH ${desc[i]})
paste -d' '(printf %-49s ${pkg[i]})(echo ${blockdesc[0]})
for line in ${blockde...@]:1}; do
printf %-50s%s\n $line
done
(( ++i ))
[[ $1 == -d ]] echo
done
-
It takes STDIN, and accepts a -d option to add a space after each
package. Descriptions have a default width of 50 characters (meaning a
total width of 100 characters). You can alter this by specifying WIDTH
as an environment var, e.g.
$ pacman -Ss | WIDTH=30 ./foofilter -d
Personally I think pacman-color is a better solution that mangling the
output like this, but to each their own.
d
---
Thanks for this one, I've messed around with it a little and it's a
handy little function for searching.
Re: [arch-general] script to reformat 'pacman -Ss' output into 2 readable columns (prevents blindness)
On 08/06/2010 12:09 AM, Jason Reardon wrote: if which zenity /dev/null..., the former doesn't redirect error output. Thanks - updated. -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E. Rankin Law Firm, PLLC 510 Ochiltree Street Nacogdoches, Texas 75961 Telephone: (936) 715-9333 Facsimile: (936) 715-9339 www.rankinlawfirm.com
Re: [arch-general] script to reformat 'pacman -Ss' output into 2 readable columns (prevents blindness)
On Fri, Aug 06, 2010 at 05:11:27PM +0100, ni...@greenlemur.com wrote: On Thu, Aug 05, 2010 at 10:51:45PM -0500, David C. Rankin wrote: http://www.3111skyline.com/dl/Archlinux/scripts/srch2list.sh I'm new to Arch and to the list but wanted to say thanks for posting this up. I've found pacman a great tool for getting what I need installed, but browsing and looking around it was tricky - this script is really useful for that. Nice. But why not read from stdin if no file is given, e.g. pacman -Ss ttf | srch2list.sh -- FA There are three of them, and Alleline.
Re: [arch-general] script to reformat 'pacman -Ss' output into 2 readable columns (prevents blindness)
On 08/06/2010 12:33 AM, Dave Reisner wrote:
Hi.
Let's see what we can do about cutting back a little on the verbosity,
and upping the utility...
Dave,
Thanks. It will take me a bit to decipher it, but I'm all for cutting down on
typing and upping the benefit received :p
I have a question. I was trying to figure the script out by passing in one of my
pacman -Ss save files as follows, but I keep getting an error:
16:36 alchemy:~/scr/arch cat dev/font.pms | sh srchreisner.sh
srchreisner.sh: line 20: syntax error near unexpected token `'
srchreisner.sh: line 20: ` IFS=$'\n' read -r -d'\0' -a blockdesc (fmt
-w$WIDTH ${desc[i]})'
Where in the black-magic or in my operation of it lies the problem?
--
David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E.
Rankin Law Firm, PLLC
510 Ochiltree Street
Nacogdoches, Texas 75961
Telephone: (936) 715-9333
Facsimile: (936) 715-9339
www.rankinlawfirm.com
Re: [arch-general] script to reformat 'pacman -Ss' output into 2 readable columns (prevents blindness)
On 08/06/2010 04:40 PM, David C. Rankin wrote:
On 08/06/2010 12:33 AM, Dave Reisner wrote:
Hi.
Let's see what we can do about cutting back a little on the verbosity,
and upping the utility...
Dave,
Thanks. It will take me a bit to decipher it, but I'm all for cutting down on
typing and upping the benefit received :p
I have a question. I was trying to figure the script out by passing in one of my
pacman -Ss save files as follows, but I keep getting an error:
16:36 alchemy:~/scr/arch cat dev/font.pms | sh srchreisner.sh
srchreisner.sh: line 20: syntax error near unexpected token `'
srchreisner.sh: line 20: ` IFS=$'\n' read -r -d'\0' -a blockdesc (fmt
-w$WIDTH ${desc[i]})'
Where in the black-magic or in my operation of it lies the problem?
Never mind, calling the script with sh was the issue (duh...)
--
David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E.
Rankin Law Firm, PLLC
510 Ochiltree Street
Nacogdoches, Texas 75961
Telephone: (936) 715-9333
Facsimile: (936) 715-9339
www.rankinlawfirm.com
Re: [arch-general] script to reformat 'pacman -Ss' output into 2 readable columns (prevents blindness)
On 08/06/2010 03:34 PM, f...@kokkinizita.net wrote: On Fri, Aug 06, 2010 at 05:11:27PM +0100, ni...@greenlemur.com wrote: On Thu, Aug 05, 2010 at 10:51:45PM -0500, David C. Rankin wrote: http://www.3111skyline.com/dl/Archlinux/scripts/srch2list.sh I'm new to Arch and to the list but wanted to say thanks for posting this up. I've found pacman a great tool for getting what I need installed, but browsing and looking around it was tricky - this script is really useful for that. Nice. But why not read from stdin if no file is given, e.g. pacman -Ss ttf | srch2list.sh Actually I'm working on just passing the script the search term and calling pacman from within the script. The problem with piping the output into the script is it messed up my terminal size calcs (stty doesn't like the script taking input from stdin) and one of the primary goals I had for the script was for it to dynamically size the output based on (1) the longest filename returned (to set column 1 width) and (2) to size the description column using the remainder of the terminal width leaving the 1 char margin. So keeping the ability to grab the terminal size from stty was key. I'm working to learn the why's of stty seeing things as a file and not a tty when piping input from stdin, but I'm not there yet. I'll update the input routine for the script so it will be flexible enough to take a search term, a saved search file and/or have it prompt for the search term or filename using zenity or stdin. That will get the script to where I want it to be. But knowing my schedule (and distractions from 3 kids) I thought I would go ahead and post the reformatting part so some use could be made of it until I have an hour or two to work out the final input. -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E. Rankin Law Firm, PLLC 510 Ochiltree Street Nacogdoches, Texas 75961 Telephone: (936) 715-9333 Facsimile: (936) 715-9339 www.rankinlawfirm.com
Re: [arch-general] script to reformat 'pacman -Ss' output into 2 readable columns (prevents blindness)
On Thu 05 Aug 2010 22:51 -0500, David C. Rankin wrote: Guys, You got a script for the gals too? :D I developed a script to help me read the output of pacman -Ss in 2 nicely formatted columns. The output of 'pacman -Ss srchterm' drives me nuts trying to read down the package names and descriptions with all the tab indented and wrapped text -- so I fixed it. Download the script here: http://www.3111skyline.com/dl/Archlinux/scripts/srch2list.sh or with the '-d' option for semi-doublespace: This should definitely be the default. Otherwise I may go walleyed. The script needs 1 input. That is a filename 'srchfile' that contains the output from 'pacman -Ss srchterm srchfile' There are 2 options, '-h or --help' gives a brief description and '-d' which causes the output to be essentially double-spaced. (each package description remains single spaced if it requires multiple lines, but a blank line is included between package descriptions) On the todo list is having the script take the input from stdin and eliminate the srchfile. Cheers.
Re: [arch-general] script to reformat 'pacman -Ss' output into 2 readable columns (prevents blindness)
On 08/05/2010 10:51 PM, David C. Rankin wrote: snip Give this a whirl and see what you think. Let me know what works and what doesn't and also how I do things better/cleaner than I have currently done them. Who knows, maybe we will look at 'zenity --list' and provide a gui output next time :p OK, The zenity output was simpler than I thought. If you got the script before I added the zenity --list output, then download it again. The script is here: http://www.3111skyline.com/dl/Archlinux/scripts/srch2list.sh The zenity --list output looks like this: (82k) http://www.3111skyline.com/dl/Archlinux/scripts/srch2list-zenity.jpg Now I can read it :p -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E. Rankin Law Firm, PLLC 510 Ochiltree Street Nacogdoches, Texas 75961 Telephone: (936) 715-9333 Facsimile: (936) 715-9339 www.rankinlawfirm.com
Re: [arch-general] script to reformat 'pacman -Ss' output into 2 readable columns (prevents blindness)
On 08/05/2010 11:19 PM, Loui Chang wrote: or with the '-d' option for semi-doublespace: This should definitely be the default. Otherwise I may go walleyed. You are correct sir! I guess the only reason it wasn't the default is that I did the script on my laptop so vertical space was at a premium :p I have to rework the options anyway to add an option to disable the zenity list so I'll redo the line spacing default as well. Right now I have the script testing for zenity with which and then displaying the zenity --list by default if zenity is installed. What's your vote? Should zenity be off by default and then enabled with an option?. It is light enough to work well even over ssh connections, so my thought was to just leave it enabled by default and add a flag to disable it if it wasn't wanted.. -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E. Rankin Law Firm, PLLC 510 Ochiltree Street Nacogdoches, Texas 75961 Telephone: (936) 715-9333 Facsimile: (936) 715-9339 www.rankinlawfirm.com
Re: [arch-general] script to reformat 'pacman -Ss' output into 2 readable columns (prevents blindness)
Sweet script, it always bothered me the way pacman -Ss formatted its output. The check you do for zenity has a minor problem, though. Instead of if which zenity /dev/null... it needs to be if which zenity /dev/null..., the former doesn't redirect error output. Anyway, very well done, thanks for the script! Jason On Fri, Aug 6, 2010 at 12:48 AM, David C. Rankin drankina...@suddenlinkmail.com wrote: On 08/05/2010 11:19 PM, Loui Chang wrote: or with the '-d' option for semi-doublespace: This should definitely be the default. Otherwise I may go walleyed. You are correct sir! I guess the only reason it wasn't the default is that I did the script on my laptop so vertical space was at a premium :p I have to rework the options anyway to add an option to disable the zenity list so I'll redo the line spacing default as well. Right now I have the script testing for zenity with which and then displaying the zenity --list by default if zenity is installed. What's your vote? Should zenity be off by default and then enabled with an option?. It is light enough to work well even over ssh connections, so my thought was to just leave it enabled by default and add a flag to disable it if it wasn't wanted.. -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E. Rankin Law Firm, PLLC 510 Ochiltree Street Nacogdoches, Texas 75961 Telephone: (936) 715-9333 Facsimile: (936) 715-9339 www.rankinlawfirm.com
Re: [arch-general] script to reformat 'pacman -Ss' output into 2 readable columns (prevents blindness)
On Thu, Aug 05, 2010 at 10:51:45PM -0500, David C. Rankin wrote:
Guys,
I developed a script...
Hi.
Let's see what we can do about cutting back a little on the verbosity,
and upping the utility...
-
#!/bin/bash
pkg=()
desc=()
count=-1
WIDTH=${WIDTH:-50}
while read line; do
if [[ $line =~ ^(testing|core|extra|community|community-testing)/* ]]; then
(( count++ ))
pkg[count]=$line
continue
fi
desc[count]+=$line
done
i=0
while (( i = count )); do
IFS=$'\n' read -r -d'\0' -a blockdesc (fmt -w$WIDTH ${desc[i]})
paste -d' ' (printf %-49s ${pkg[i]}) (echo ${blockdesc[0]})
for line in ${blockde...@]:1}; do
printf %-50s%s\n $line
done
(( ++i ))
[[ $1 == -d ]] echo
done
-
It takes STDIN, and accepts a -d option to add a space after each
package. Descriptions have a default width of 50 characters (meaning a
total width of 100 characters). You can alter this by specifying WIDTH
as an environment var, e.g.
$ pacman -Ss | WIDTH=30 ./foofilter -d
Personally I think pacman-color is a better solution that mangling the
output like this, but to each their own.
d
