alpm-pkginfo-format(1) General Commands Manual alpm-pkginfo-format(1)

alpm-pkginfo-format - Parse a PKGINFO file and output it in a different file format

alpm-pkginfo format [-o|--output-format] [-p|--pretty] [-h|--help] [FILE]

Parse a PKGINFO file and output it in a different file format

If the input can be validated according to a known schema, the program writes the PKGINFO data to stdout in a different file format (optionally, a file path to write to may be provided) and exits with a return code of 0. Currently only JSON is supported as output format. If the input can not be validated according to a known schema, an error is emitted on stderr and the program exits with a non-zero exit code.

The output format to use

Currently only "json" (the default) is supported

[possible values: json]

Pretty-print the output

Has no effect if the output format can not be pretty printed.

Print help (see a summary with '-h')
[FILE]
An optional input file path to read from

If no file path is specified, stdin is read from and expected to contain PKGINFO data to format.

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