PKG-ALIAS(8)

💅 pkg-alias(8) — the manual page, but make it make sense

hey bestie, welcome to pkg-alias(8) — it lives in the System Manager's Manual section and it's genuinely one of the chillest pages in the whole pkg family. let's get into it 🫶

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🌸 NAME 🌸

pkg alias — display configured aliases

like, that's it. that's the whole job. she shows you your aliases ✨

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🎀 SYNOPSIS 🎀

pkg alias [-q] [-l] [alias]

pkg alias [--quiet] [--list] [alias]

both spellings do the same thing, so pick whichever one your fingers vibe with 💅

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🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

okay so pkg alias displays configured aliases. that's the tea.

if you hand it the name of an existing alias, it only shows the aliased arguments to pkg(8) — just that one, nothing else, no extra commentary. icon behaviour honestly.

and if you give it no arguments at all? then it prints all the aliases and their respective pkg(8) arguments. the full lineup. main character energy 🌈

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✨ OPTIONS ✨

these are the options supported by pkg alias — there are literally two, she's lowkey minimalist:

• -l, --list — print all aliases, one alias per line, without their pkg(8) arguments. just the names, clean and cute, no baggage 🌸
• -q, --quiet — force quiet output (suppress column headers). for when the headers are giving too much 💀

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🍓 FILES 🍓

• pkg.conf(5)

yep, that's where the config lives. go say hi 👑

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💖 EXAMPLES 💖

display all aliases:

% pkg alias

display pkg(8) for alias "size":

% pkg alias size

see? simple. slay. periodt 💅✨

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🔥 SEE ALSO 🔥

pkg_create(3), pkg_printf(3), pkg_repo_create(3), pkg_repos(3), pkg-keywords(5), pkg-lua-script(5), pkg-repository(5), pkg-script(5), pkg-triggers(5), pkg.conf(5), pkg(8), pkg-add(8), pkg-annotate(8), pkg-audit(8), pkg-autoremove(8), pkg-check(8), pkg-clean(8), pkg-config(8), pkg-create(8), pkg-delete(8), pkg-fetch(8), pkg-help(8), pkg-info(8), pkg-install(8), pkg-key(8), pkg-lock(8), pkg-plugins(8), pkg-query(8), pkg-register(8), pkg-repo(8), pkg-repositories(8), pkg-rquery(8), pkg-search(8), pkg-set(8), pkg-shell(8), pkg-shlib(8), pkg-ssh(8), pkg-stats(8), pkg-triggers(8), pkg-unregister(8), pkg-update(8), pkg-updating(8), pkg-upgrade(8), pkg-version(8), pkg-which(8)

that's the whole friend group, go read them all (or don't, no pressure, i'm not your mom) 🧚💜

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ngl there's not a single warning, bug, or exit status on this page — she's a clean girlie with nothing to confess 🙈

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and that's the page!! shoutout to Debian for shipping this, dated January 6, 2021 — mwah, ty for your service 🎀💖 iykyk