PACSEARCH(8)

📦 version 1.13.1, in arch rolling

okay bestie, you're reading PACSEARCH(8) from the Pacman-contrib Manual — the whole page is about pacsearch, and it's lowkey iconic 💅✨

🌸 NAME 🌸

pacsearch — a colorized search combining both -Ss and -Qs output. literally that's the vibe 🎀

🦋 SYNOPSIS 🦋

pacsearch [--nocolor] <pattern>

💖 DESCRIPTION 💖

okay so pacsearch will perform a pacman search using both the local and the sync databases. installed packages are easily identified with a [installed], and local-only packages are also listed. example: pacsearch ^gnome — slay 💅

✨ OPTIONS ✨

  • -h, --help — display syntax and command-line options. the “help me help you” button 🫶
  • -n, --nocolor — do no colorize output. no rainbow, just plain vibes 🙈
  • -V, --version — display version information. the “what era is this” check 👑

👀 SEE ALSO 👀

pacman(8) — go say hi to the big sibling 💜

💀 BUGS 💀

Bugs? you must be kidding — there are no bugs in this software 💀. but if we happen to be wrong, file an issue with as much detail as possible at https://gitlab.archlinux.org/pacman/pacman-contrib/-/issues/new. fr fr, give them the deets.

👑 AUTHORS 👑

current maintainers:

  • Johannes Löthberg <johannes@kyriasis.com>
  • Daniel M. Capella <polyzen@archlinux.org>

for additional contributors, use git shortlog -s on the pacman-contrib.git repository. icon behavior 👑

that's the whole page, bestie! this iconic manual is Pacman-contrib 1.13.1, dated 2025-12-11, and it's literally PACSEARCH(8) 💖✨

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