Inspired by the thread about “Would you use Arch without the AUR”:
How many, and which AUR packages are you using?
To make it easier, count them with pacman -Qmq | wc -l. Drop the | wc -l for a short list.
To make it easier, count them with pacman -Qm | awk '{print $1}' | wc -l. Drop the | wc -l for a short list.
I have 13 AUR packages installed.
AUR packages:
Get a simple list for copy&paste with expac -Q "**%n**\n%d" $(pacman -Qmq).
If you want to use this just in your terminal, better to use expac -Q "\e[1m%n\e[0m\n%d" $(pacman -Qmq).
Get a simple list for copy&paste with while read -r line; do echo -e '**'$line'**'; LANG=C pacman -Qi $line | grep --color=never -Po '^Description\s*: \K.+'; done < <(pacman -Qm | awk '{print $1}').
If you want to use this just in your terminal, better to use while read -r line; do echo -e '\033[1m'$line'\033[0m'; LANG=C pacman -Qi $line | grep --color=never -Po '^Description\s*: \K.+'; done < <(pacman -Qm | awk '{print $1}').
My AUR packages:
7-zip-full
File archiver with a high compression ratio (full package to replace p7zip)
bc-gh
Implementation of dc and POSIX bc with GNU extensions
btrfs-assistant
An application for managing BTRFS subvolumes and Snapper snapshots
fast_float
Fast and exact implementation of the C++ from_chars functions:4x faster than strtod
hstr
Bash and Zsh shell history suggest box - easily view, navigate, search and manage your command history.
neovim-symlinks
Runs neovim if vi or vim is called
nnn-nerd
The fastest terminal file manager ever written (with icon support using a patched nerd font).
ntfsprogs-ntfs3
NTFS filesystem utilities without NTFS-3G driver. For system with kernel >= 5.15
paps
Converts Unicode text to postscript and pdf using pango
rate-mirrors-bin
Everyday-use client-side map-aware mirror ranking tool - pre-built with musl
turbo-base64
Fastest Base64 SIMD Encoding library
ueberzugpp
Command line util which allows to display images in combination with X11 written in C++
wsdd2
WSD/LLMNR Discovery/Name Service Daemon. Install it to make Samba shares discoverable on Windows hosts.
Looking forward to your answers! I think it can be more insightful to see what active EnOS users from the forum have, than just looking at the popularity numbers from the AUR database.
EDIT to optimize the commands a lot, thanks to @manuel.
