PATOM(1)

NAME
patom - Wrapper for running commandline scripts.

SYNOPSIS

    patom [-h] [--version] [--debug] [-q] [-v] [--color BOOLEAN]
          [-F FORMAT [ATOM ...] | -c ATOM ATOM]

OPTIONS

-F, --format FORMAT [ATOM ...]
    Specify a custom output format.

    Conversion specifiers start with a % symbol and are followed by either { or [. Next is the name of the field to expand, followed by a matching } or ].

    The difference between { and [ is that the latter is only printed if the field referred is set, while the former prints <unset> in that case.

    The following fields are supported:

CATEGORY
    The category of the package.

PACKAGE
    The package name.

VERSION
    The package version without the ebuild revision.

FULLVER
    The package name, version and revision when not zero. Thus, a zero revision -r0 is not printed.

REVISION
    The ebuild revision.

SLOT
    The package slot, if exists in atom, otherwise empty.

SUBSLOT
    The package sub slot, if exists in atom, otherwise empty.

REPO_ID
    The package repository.

OP  The package prefixes, that is version specifiers.

-c, --compare ATOM ATOM
    Compare two atoms

BASE OPTIONS

-h, --help
    Show this help message and exit. To get more information see the related man page.

--version
    Show this program's version information and exit.

    When running from within a git repo or a version installed from git the latest commit hash and date will be shown.

--debug
    Enable debug checks and show verbose debug output.

-q, --quiet
    Suppress non-error, informational messages.

-v, --verbose
    Increase the verbosity of various output.

--color BOOLEAN
    Toggle colored output support. This can be used to forcibly enable color support when piping output or other situations where stdout is not a tty.

Author
Michał Górny <mgorny@gentoo.org>, Tim Harder <radhermit@gmail.com>, Brian Harring <ferringb@gmail.com>, Arthur Zamarin <arthurzam@gentoo.org>, Marien Zwart <marienz@gentoo.org>

Copyright
2006-2022, pkgcore contributors