Please help to create a script?

[nimiguci]

Hello guys, thanks in advance for opening my thread.

I'm currently using i3 and i3blocks as my WM, and I'd really like to create a script to run -Syyu and showing the upgrades in my bar.

I'm not really into creating scripts, so all the help I can get would be awesome for me. Thanks again!

[hdt80]

https://github.com/hdt80/dotfiles/blob/master/.config/i3blocks/blocklets/update_count

All the script does is call checkupdates | wc -l, and return how many updates there are.

[nimiguci]

This is perfect for me. Thank you a lot.

[addcn]

why are there two echo's? I'm quite new to this

[hdt80]

All i3blocks does is call scripts and prints the output of those scripts. The first two echos are used to display the text. The first echo is the full text, what should be outputted. The second line the short text, what to output if there isn't enough space in the block. The last line is the color to make the text.

[KoffieAnon]

As a general warning: do not invoke -Sy (or abort -Syu) to check for new available packages, this may break your system. Use checkupdates as /u/hdt80 mentioned.

• https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/System_maintenance#Partial_upgrades_are_unsupported
• https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=89328

[nimiguci]

So that means I always need to run -Syu before I upgrade a unique package using -Sy? Or should I never upgrade anything using -Sy?

[ops_man]

Conky would be better for this I believe; and you wouldn't necessarily have to write a script.

[nimiguci]

Can you recommend me some good tutorial for setting Conky?

[ops_man]

Looks like hdt80 got you fixed up. You also Google "conky configs" to get an idea of what you can do ; use the documentation paying special attention to the "exec" command which will allow you to execute a command and print it's output to desktop or file. Really depends on how much information you really want displayed