PACCONF(1)

📦 version 0.15.0, in arch rolling

🎀 PACCONF(1) 🎀

okay bestie, this is the manual page for pacconf, and it’s literally here to help you query pacman’s configuration file. 💖

✨ NAME ✨

pacconf — query pacman’s configuration file. 🫶

🦋 SYNOPSIS 🦋

pacconf [options] [<directive>...]
pacconf (--repo-list|--help|--version)

🌸 DESCRIPTION 🌸

pacconf queries configuration options out of pacman’s configuration file. If you don’t hand it any *directive*s, the entire configuration gets printed in a normalized format — yes, all of it. 💅

By default, if you pass only a single directive, only its value gets printed, without the option name. For directives that don’t have a value, the directive name will be used as the value. periodt. ✨

The values displayed are the final values, exactly as pacman itself would parse them. All default values are set, Include directives are processed, $arch and $repo variables in repository servers are replaced, and Architecture will be replaced if it’s set to auto. 🔥

💖 OPTIONS 💖

  • --config=path — set an alternate configuration file path. 📁
  • --root=path — set an alternate installation root. 🌱
  • --sysroot=path — set an alternate system root. See pacutils-sysroot(7). 🧚
  • --arch=arch — set an alternate architecture. 🏗️
  • --null[=sep] — set an alternate separator for values parsed from stdin. By default a newline "\n" is used as the separator. If --null is used without specifying sep, "NUL" will be used. 🫧
  • --options — only display global settings from the [options] section. The [options] header itself is not printed. 👑
  • --raw — display unmodified values. Include directives will be processed, but defaults will not be set, $arch and $repo variables in repository servers will not be replaced, and Architecture will not be replaced if set to auto. 💀
  • --repo=name — only display directives for repository name. The repository header is not printed. 🍓
  • --repo-list — list configured repositories. 🌈
  • --single — display only first value of multi-value options. 🎀
  • --verbose — always show directive names even if only one directive is provided. 🌟
  • --help — display usage information and exit. 🙈
  • --version — display version information and exit. 💜

⭐ EXAMPLES ⭐

Check if color is enabled:

color=$(pacconf color)
[[ -n $color ]] && ... # print something in color

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