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| author | Dan McGee <dan@archlinux.org> | 2011-03-16 19:55:28 -0500 |
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| committer | Dan McGee <dan@archlinux.org> | 2011-03-16 19:55:28 -0500 |
| commit | e6c9076a74f72d7c5164e2154ce1f47f8886e6e5 (patch) | |
| tree | 341489024952aec1813c7ce67bc45faf8c5b6441 /doc/pacman.8.txt | |
| parent | cff36093f3b778b3bda9c9d1a3acf24e36dd9f73 (diff) | |
| parent | 308aa38a40fb26d535f0b874bb64fe987126d03f (diff) | |
| download | pacman-e6c9076a74f72d7c5164e2154ce1f47f8886e6e5.tar.xz | |
Merge branch 'maint'
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diff --git a/doc/pacman.8.txt b/doc/pacman.8.txt index 7a13b897..249c774e 100644 --- a/doc/pacman.8.txt +++ b/doc/pacman.8.txt @@ -11,7 +11,7 @@ pacman - package manager utility Synopsis -------- -'pacman' <operation> [options] [packages] +'pacman' <operation> [options] [targets] Description @@ -25,6 +25,12 @@ Since version 3.0.0, pacman has been the frontend to linkman:libalpm[3], the ``Arch Linux Package Management'' library. This library allows alternative front ends to be written (for instance, a GUI front end). +Invoking pacman involves specifying an operation with any potential options and +targets to operate on. A 'target' is usually a package name, filename, URL, or +a search string. Targets can be provided as command line arguments. +Additionally, if a single dash (-) is passed as an argument, targets will be +read from stdin. + Operations ---------- |