---
title: "Seconds since last pacman sync"
date: 2022-05-19T08:45:13Z
tags: ["archlinux", "linux", "pacman"]
draft: false
---

We can echo the result of the current timestamp subtracted from the last edit timestamp in `/var/lib/pacman/local/*/desc`.

```sh {data-copy-button=true}
echo $(expr $(date +%s) - $(grep -rn -A 1 %INSTALLDATE% /var/lib/pacman/local/*/desc | grep -oP '\d{10,}$' | sort | tail -1))
```