add alias to search for pacman packages

1 files changed, 4 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/dot-bashrc b/dot-bashrc
index 583b883..1511798 100644
--- a/dot-bashrc
+++ b/dot-bashrc
@@ -56,6 +56,10 @@ export RCLONE_CHECKERS=200
 # list packages installed explicitly, sorted by date
 alias pacbd="cd && pacman -Qqe > pkglist.txt && expac --timefmt='%Y-%m-%d %T' '%l\t%n' | sort | sed 's/^.*\s//' - | rg -f pkglist.txt -x"
 
+# Query packages with fzf
+# adapted from: https://www.reddit.com/r/archlinux/comments/xyjolo/using_fzf_to_search_pacman_database_including/
+alias packages="pacman -Ss | paste -d '' - - | sed -e 's|/|\t|' | fzf --multi --preview 'pacman -Siiv {2}' --tiebreak begin -e | rg '\t([^\s]+)' -o --trim | xargs -ro sudo pacman -S"
+
 # distrobox dev environment
 alias dev="distrobox enter dev"