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Thoughts on my update script? Any suggestions for improvement? (feddit.org)

submitted 7 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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#!/usr/bin/env bash
echo -e '\nReading the news...\n'
        yay -Pw
echo -e '\nUpdating...\n'
        sudo pacman -Syu
echo -e '\nLooking for orphaned packages...\n'
        yay -Qtd
echo -e '\nLooking for obsolete packages...\n'
        url='https://aur.archlinux.org/rpc?v=5'
        pacman -Qmq | sort >| /tmp/pkgs
        curl -s "${url}type=info$(printf '&arg[]=%s' $(cat /tmp/pkgs))" \
                | jq -r '.results[]|.Name' | sort | comm -13 - /tmp/pkgs
echo -e '\nLooking for changed config files...\n'
        sudo find /etc -name *.pac*
echo -e '\nDone.\n'

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 7 months ago

Your echo statements should be put into a function so you don't have \n littered throughout your script.

Your url var could be improved. Why have it? If you really want it, why not put type=info in the var?