Aliasing aura to aura -Syu

[xfzv]

Currently, running aura prints the help menu (like aura -h or aura --help), which isn't very useful.

Some AUR helpers like paru or yay have aliased the program command to $program -Syu

Sources:

• paru
• yay

I think aliasing aura to aura -Syu instead of displaying the help menu would be a better default.

Thoughts?

[fosskers]

In my experience it's actually quite common for programs to default to "help" if given no other options. Thank you for the suggestion, but in this case I will be maintaining the current behaviour.

[xfzv]

OK, thanks for the reply!

[yvvki]

It's easy to make a wrapper to aura (a wrapper for a wrapper?), just check whether you have any flags and off to do some updates.

#!/bin/bash

if [[ $# -eq 0 ]]; then
  /usr/bin/aura -Syu && /usr/bin/aura -Ayu
else
  /usr/bin/aura $@
fi

[fosskers]

Aura occasionally calls to pacman for certain things, but most of its code is independent, so while it's common to call such tools "wrappers", it isn't strictly correct.

[yvvki]

I mean, a wrapper wrapper sounds cooler than a wrapper to isn't strictly wrapper 😅