Thoughts on my update script? Any suggestions for improvement?
submitted 3 months ago by superkret@feddit.org
#!/usr/bin/env bash echo -e '\nReading the news...\n' yay -Pw echo -e '\nUpdating...\n' sudo pacman -Syu echo -e '\nLooking for orphaned packages...\n' yay -Qtd echo -e '\nLooking for obsolete packages...\n' url='https://aur.archlinux.org/rpc?v=5&' pacman -Qmq | sort >| /tmp/pkgs curl -s "${url}type=info$(printf '&arg[]=%s' $(cat /tmp/pkgs))" \ | jq -r '.results[]|.Name' | sort | comm -13 - /tmp/pkgs echo -e '\nLooking for changed config files...\n' sudo find /etc -name *.pac* echo -e '\nDone.\n'
I’ve just been using github.com/topgrade-rs/topgrade
Love this. One of those extremely satisfying terminal commands to pointlessly run over and over, so much so that I added it to my crontab so I don’t do that 😭
Switch to
printf
.printf “%s\n” “text goes here”
Your
echo
statements should be put into a function so you don’t have\n
littered throughout your script.Your url var could be improved. Why have it? If you really want it, why not put type=info in the var?
pacman-contrib has pacdiff and paccache I like to run at the end of my update scripts
Nice, I have a similar one. Things I also do there:
flatpak update
tldr -u
to update tldr pages