How to clean orphan packages in one line

I am not a GNU/Linux master, nor a terminal expert, i was going to make a bash script to clean orphan packages, then i read this...

Using arrays or loops in shells is often signs of bad coding practice.

• Source: store the command output in an array and print one by one.

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... So i decided to research about awk, and i did this one-line command to clean your orphan pacman packages sudo pacman -R $(pacman -Qdt | awk '{print $1}')

• pacman -Qdt: Used to display the orphan packages.
• awk '{print $1}': Prints the first field of the output.

Comments

[Martín Vukovic]

You can use --noconfirm as an equivalent of -y in apt, to disable user confirmation ;)