PACINFO(1)                          pacinfo                         PACINFO(1)


NAME
       pacinfo - display package information

SYNOPSIS
        pacinfo [options] (<pkgspec>|<pkgname>)...
        pacinfo (--help|--version)

DESCRIPTION
       If a pkgname is given, information for all packages matching that name
       in all databases will be displayed.

       If stdin is not connected to a terminal, packages will be read from
       stdin.

OPTIONS
       --config=path
           Set an alternate configuration file path.

       --dbext=extension
           Set an alternate sync database extension.

       --dbpath=path
           Set an alternate database path.

       --root=path
           Set an alternate installation root.

       --sysroot=path
           Set an alternate system root.  See pacutils-sysroot(7).

       --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.

       --no-timeout
           Disable low-speed timeouts for downloads.

       --short
           Display brief information.  Suitable for printing a potentially
           large number of packages:

            pacsift --name libreoffice | pacinfo --short

       --verbose
           Display additional package information: "required by", "optional
           for", and "base64 signature".

       --raw
           Display raw numeric size and date values.

       --removable-size
           Include the size of any removable dependencies in installed size.

       --help
           Display usage information and exit.

       --version
           Display version information and exit.

CAVEATS
       pacinfo determines whether or not to read packages from stdin based on
       a naive check using isatty(3).  If pacinfo is called in an environment,
       such as a shell function or script being used in a pipe, where stdin is
       not connected to a terminal but does not contain packages to print,
       pacinfo should be called with stdin closed.  For POSIX-compatible
       shells, this can be done with "<&-".

pacutils                          2024-04-16                        PACINFO(1)