Paccat

Print pacman package files

Usage

    paccat [options] <target> <files>
    paccat [options] <targets> -- <files>
    paccat [options] -<Q|F> <files>
    paccat [options] -<Q|F> [targets] -- <files>

a target can be specified as <pkgname>, <repo>/<pkgname>, <url> or <file>.

Files can be specified as just the filename or the full path.

Examples

paccat grub etc/default/grub

Print the contents of 'etc/default/grub' from the grub package.

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paccat pacman pacman.conf

Print the contents of the first file named 'pacman.conf' from the pacman package.

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paccat -F pacman.conf

Print the contents of the first file named 'pacman.conf' in the repos

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paccat -x pacman mkinitcpio -- '\\.conf$'

Print the contents of all files ending in '.conf' from both the pacman and mkinitcpio packages.

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paccat ~/pkgs/my-pkg-1.0.0-1.pkg.tar.zst myfile

Print the contents of 'myfile' from a package tarball.

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paccat https://archlinux.org/packages/extra/x86_64/git/download git-blame.1.gz

Download and print the contents of 'git-blame.1.gz' from the git package.";