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pacman.8: (re)document behavior of reading from stdin

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Change the term 'packages' to 'targets' in the synopsis as well, since
command line parameters could just as well be groups, repos, or URLs.

Signed-off-by: Dave Reisner <d@falconindy.com>
Signed-off-by: Dan McGee <dan@archlinux.org>
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Dave Reisner 2011-03-16 20:24:11 -04:00 committed by Dan McGee
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@ -11,7 +11,7 @@ pacman - package manager utility
Synopsis Synopsis
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'pacman' <operation> [options] [packages] 'pacman' <operation> [options] [targets]
Description 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 ``Arch Linux Package Management'' library. This library allows alternative
front ends to be written (for instance, a GUI front end). 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 Operations
---------- ----------