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authorJason St. John <jstjohn@purdue.edu>2013-11-08 08:53:33 +0100
committerAllan McRae <allan@archlinux.org>2013-11-15 02:02:27 +0100
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Improve --help switch output for pacman contrib and pacman scripts
Unify the formatting of the --help switch for pacman utils, if it exists. All of the pacman utils will now output help text using the following format: util-name (pacman) v<pacman version> one line description of util's purpose Usage: util-name [options] -b, --bar whatever --bar does -f, --foo whatever --foo does -h, --help display this help message Reported-by: Karol Błażewicz <karol.blazewicz at gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Jason St. John <jstjohn@purdue.edu>
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@@ -152,27 +152,27 @@ summarize() {
usage() {
cat <<EOF
-usage: $myname <operation> [options] [targets...]
+${myname} (pacman) v${myver}
-$myname is a flexible pacman cache cleaning utility, which has numerous
-options to help control how much, and what, is deleted from any directory
-containing pacman package tarballs.
+A flexible pacman cache cleaning utility.
+
+Usage: ${myname} <operation> [options] [targets...]
Operations:
-d, --dryrun perform a dry run, only finding candidate packages.
- -m, --move <dir> move candidate packages to 'movedir'.
+ -m, --move <dir> move candidate packages to "movedir".
-r, --remove remove candidate packages.
Options:
- -a, --arch <arch> scan for 'arch' (default: all architectures).
- -c, --cachedir <dir> scan 'cachedir' for packages.
+ -a, --arch <arch> scan for "arch" (default: all architectures).
+ -c, --cachedir <dir> scan "cachedir" for packages.
(default: @localstatedir@/cache/pacman/pkg).
-f, --force apply force to mv(1) and rm(1) operations.
-h, --help display this help message and exit.
- -i, --ignore <pkgs> ignore 'pkgs', comma separated. Alternatively, specify
- '-' to read package names from stdin, newline
+ -i, --ignore <pkgs> ignore "pkgs", comma-separated. Alternatively, specify
+ "-" to read package names from stdin, newline-
delimited.
- -k, --keep <num> keep 'num' of each package in 'cachedir' (default: 3).
+ -k, --keep <num> keep "num" of each package in "cachedir" (default: 3).
--nocolor remove color from output.
-u, --uninstalled target uninstalled packages.
-v, --verbose increase verbosity. specify up to 3 times.