Use this file as a post-it for packages to install on laptop/desktop.

add notation about awk as
Select everything but the second field:
awk '!($2="")'

add notation about tr (translate command):
replace every newline with a single space: tr '\n' ' '

add notation about using find to list only files in current directory and NOT subdirectory:
find $dir -maxdepth 1 -type f

add notation about using pick to parse through output, and pipe that using xargs to another command:
example:
ls | pick | xargs bat # will give you a choice of the files from ls, pick displays a menu to "pick" the file, which then is parsed to xargs bat (invokes bat on choice from ls | pick)

https://medium.com/techie-delight/top-25-algorithms-every-programmer-should-know-373246b4881b

Look up the select command (online, man page is not as helpful). It makes a nice simple selectio menu for your users in bash

Install expac

doas pacman -S expac

Install pkgtop

curl https://raw.githubusercontent.com/SharUpOff/pkgtop/main/dist/pkgtop.sh -so - | sudo tee /usr/local/bin/pkgtop > /dev/null

sudo chmod 755 /usr/local/bin/pkgtop