How to Integrate aur updates counter in the bash script using paru

[freebird54]

Just a note here if a ‘script’ is still wanted… in a different thread, I posted a couple of useful bash functions for a) counting pending updates and b)showing a formatted list of pending updates. These could easily be turned into scripts (if needed that way) and swapping in a paru command instead of the yay command should be easy enough.

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Here’s a couple of little goodies, adapted into functions for those interested in an easy way to check on updates without waiting for a notifier… you could even say it’s a “notify on demand”! One of them safely produces a COUNT of pending updates (both repo and AUR) - and the other actually lists them.

Update count

# Function to count available updates upcnt() { # create vars NEWPKG=0 NEWAUR=0 # count AUR and pacman updates NEWAUR=`yay -Qua | wc -l` NEWPKG=`checkupdates | wc -l` # output RESU…