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pacini — Query pacman-style configuration files. More information: <https://github.com/andrewgregory/pacutils

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Problem

How to use the pacini command: Query pacman-style configuration files. More information: <https://github.com/andrewgregory/pacutils/blob/master/doc/pacini.pod>.

Solution

pacini — Query pacman-style configuration files. More information: <https://github.com/andrewgregory/pacutils/blob/master/doc/pacini.pod>.

Show the full parsed configuration file (default: stdin):

pacini {{path/to/file}}

List configured sections:

pacini {{path/to/file}} --section-list

Always show directive names even if only one directive is provided:

pacini {{path/to/file}} --verbose

Display directives listed in a specific section:

pacini {{path/to/file}} --section {{section_name}}

Display help:

pacini --help

Display version:

pacini --version

Code Snippets

Show the full parsed configuration file (default: `stdin`)

pacini {{path/to/file}}

List configured sections

pacini {{path/to/file}} --section-list

Always show directive names even if only one directive is provided

pacini {{path/to/file}} --verbose

Display directives listed in a specific section

pacini {{path/to/file}} --section {{section_name}}

Display help

pacini --help

Context

tldr-pages: linux/pacini

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