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authorFlorian Pritz <bluewind@xinu.at>2015-10-17 14:37:07 +0200
committerAllan McRae <allan@archlinux.org>2015-11-03 14:36:59 +1000
commit906dc0ce24d62284b6a3caf612948553e7ffceb3 (patch)
tree46d1c8c255353b8142eecd8341f050030ff5ee32 /doc
parent697377aae3df2ed9743f20c92e807526105c60c0 (diff)
Add -F --machinereadable option
Signed-off-by: Florian Pritz <bluewind@xinu.at> Signed-off-by: Allan McRae <allan@archlinux.org>
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@@ -481,6 +481,11 @@ File Options[[FO]]
pacman's output is processed in a script, however, you may want to use
'--machinereadable' instead.
+*--machinereadable*::
+ Use a machine readable output format for '--list', '--search' and
+ '--owns'. The format is 'repository\0pkgname\0pkgver\0path\n' with '\0'
+ being the NULL character and '\n' a linefeed.
+
Handling Config Files[[HCF]]
----------------------------
Pacman uses the same logic as 'rpm' to determine action against files that are