diff --git a/list_manual_pkgs.sh b/list_manual_pkgs.sh
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+#!/bin/sh
+# one-liner to list just the names of packages manually-installed with xbps-install, with no version numbers etc
+xbps-query --list-manual-pkgs | awk -F '{gsub(/-[0-9]+.*$/, ""); print $0}'