Disable pacman progress bar

Question

I see pacman has this option

--noprogressbar  do not show a progress bar when downloading files

That applies to pacman -S pacman -R pacman -U. However I would like to always use this option when appropriate. Is that possible?

So any time either an -S, -R, or -U flag is passed, automatically append `--noprogressbar`? — Reinstate Monica Please, Feb 09 '14 at 06:11
Create an alias for `pacman --noprogressbar` instead and use that. If the option is incompatible with other options chosen, it should be discarded. — devnull, Feb 09 '14 at 06:18
@devnull I tried that already. It is not discarded in all situations that it should be. — Zombo, Feb 09 '14 at 06:36

score 1 · Accepted Answer · edited Feb 09 '14 at 16:00

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Just put a function in one of your bash files. Something like

pacman() {
  [[ $@ =~ -[RSU] ]] && set -- "$@" --noprogressbar
  command pacman "$@"
}

edited Feb 09 '14 at 16:00

Zombo

answered Feb 09 '14 at 06:33

Just to be clear, this will append `--noprogressbar` any time any of the arguments contains `-R`, `-S`, or `-U`. It will misbehave if the `-S` option is not specified as `-S` (for example, if `--sync` is used, or if `-yS` is used (not sure if pacman supports that last one)). It will also misbehave if any of the non-options happen to contain `-S`, as a package name might, even though Arch don't seem to do that themselves. – Feb 09 '14 at 16:12

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