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@@ -204,9 +204,13 @@ Query Options[[QO]]
This is useful in combination with '\--info' and '\--list'.
*-q, \--quiet*::
- Show less information for certain query operations. Search will only show
- package names and not version, group, and description information; a bare
- query will only show package names rather than names and versions.
+ Show less information for certain query operations. (This is useful when
+ pacman's output is processed in a script.) Search will only show package
+ names and not version, group, and description information; owns will
+ only show package names and versions instead of "file is owned by pkg"
+ messages; group will only show package names and omit group names; list
+ will only show files and omit package names; a bare query will only
+ show package names rather than names and versions.
*-s, \--search* <'regexp'>::
This will search each locally-installed package for names or
@@ -284,9 +288,11 @@ linkman:pacman.conf[5].
downloaded at a later time, using a program like wget.
*-q, \--quiet*::
- Show less information for certain sync operations. Search will only show
- package names and not version, group, and description information; list
- will only show package names and omit databases and versions.
+ Show less information for certain sync operations. (This is useful when
+ pacman's output is processed in a script.) Search will only show package
+ names and not repo, version, group, and description information; list
+ will only show package names and omit databases and versions; group will
+ only show package names and omit group names.
*-s, \--search* <'regexp'>::
This will search each package in the sync databases for names or