Month: December 2009

Sort packages by size on Arch Linux – Bash one-liner

Posted by – December 19, 2009

As an Arch Linux user I am pretty fond of pacman, the distro's package manager. However, it lacks the functionality of listing packages sorted by their installed size. Such a listing would be useful when freeing space on your hard drive, for example. Here is my try on writing a bash one-liner that generates the desired list. More…