On 25/07/10 01:09, Dave Reisner wrote:
On Sat, Jul 24, 2010 at 10:30:45AM -0400, Daenyth Blank wrote:
On Sat, Jul 24, 2010 at 10:21, Dan McGee<[email protected]> wrote:
On Fri, Jul 23, 2010 at 10:26 PM, Dave Reisner<[email protected]> wrote:
Only occurs if no arguments were provided directly. Arguments can be
separated by any amount of valid whitespace. This allows for piping into
pacman from other programs or from itself, e.g.:
pacman -Qdtq | pacman -Rs
What's wrong with xargs?
You can also just do pacman -Rs $(pacman -Qqdt)
I hadn't considered xargs, but 'pacman -Xnn $()' always felt awkward to
me compared to pipes. I suppose this doesn't provide any _extra_
functionality, but it seemed like an easy enough addition for something
that's a seemingly ubiquitous feature in *nix userspace. I understand if
you consider this to be redundant.
I actually quite like this idea, despite there being multiple other ways
to achieve the same thing. The code is nicely self contained and is
moderately useful so I do not see the downside. I give it a +0.25.
Allan
