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poll-updates.sh
#!/bin/bash
# Run as root
# Requires community/expac
user="your username"
# Download packages needing an update
nice -n 50 pacman -Syuwq --noconfirm > /dev/null
# Write the packages needing an update to file
pacman -Quq | tr "\\n" " " | xargs expac -S '%r/%n [%v]' > /home/$user/.pacmanupdates
# Update sublet
subtler -su pacman > /dev/null
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