From f0b825b8d9a36f57a16f8ac35abb8742ca0414d7 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: proledatarian <gitlab@arne-bruecher.de>
Date: Fri, 8 Apr 2022 11:38:56 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] Update README.md

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 README.md | 25 ++++++++++++++++---------
 1 file changed, 16 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-)

diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
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+++ b/README.md
@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@ It's mostly distro-agnostic but sometimes specific for [pacman-based distros](ht
 - Requires: *Do you need any particular software (provide a link)?*
 - How-to: *Straight forward description and maybe a code example.* 
     - *Detailled description if necessary.*  
-    - `# this is the actual code lol`  
+    - `$ this is the actual code lol`  
 - Aditionally: *Anything else that might be important like additional ressources.*  
   
 ### 1. Automatic clear cache.  
@@ -37,14 +37,14 @@ It's mostly distro-agnostic but sometimes specific for [pacman-based distros](ht
 - Description: Repeat and watch a command in a custom interval.  
 - Requires: The [procfs](https://gitlab.com/procps-ng/procps) package.
 - How-to: Use `watch` followed by your command.  
-    - Example: `# watch -n 1.0 "du -h -s ./$folder`  
+    - Example: `$ watch -n 1.0 "du -h -s ./$folder`  
     - This prints the summarized size of $folder in human-readable format every second.  
 - Additionally: ---
 
 ### 5. Repeat last command as su.  
 - Description: Repeat the last command using sudo.  
 - Requires: The [sudo](https://www.sudo.ws/) package.  
-- How-to: Just type `sudo !!` and the last command will be repeated using `sudo`.
+- How-to: Just type `$ sudo !!` and the last command will be repeated using `sudo`.
 - Additionally: ---
   
 ### 6. Prevent overwriting files.  
@@ -58,17 +58,17 @@ It's mostly distro-agnostic but sometimes specific for [pacman-based distros](ht
 - Description: Automatically clean the pacman package cache using paccache.
 - Requires: A [pacman-based distro](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Linux_distributions#Pacman-based) and the [pacman-contrib](https://github.com/archlinux/pacman-contrib) package.
 - How-to: Enable the paccache.timer.  
-    - `# systemctl enable paccache.time`  
+    - `$ systemctl enable paccache.time`  
 - Additionally: Edit the paccache.service in /usr/lib/systemd/system/ and change the command to e.g. keep the latest installed version and no uninstalled version of all packages: `ExecStart=/usr/bin/paccache -rk1 && /usr/bin/paccache -ruk0`  
   
 ### 8. Passwordless SSH.  
 - Description: Connect to a remote maschine using SSH without a password.  
 - Requires: A SSH implementation like [TinySSH](https://tinyssh.org/).  
 - How-to: Generate a keypair and send the public key to the remote maschine's authorized keys.    
-    - Generate a keypair: `ssh-keygen -t rsa`  
-    - Send the key: `ssh-copy-id $remote-username@$remote-ip-address`
+    - Generate a keypair: `$ ssh-keygen -t rsa`  
+    - Send the key: `$ ssh-copy-id $remote-username@$remote-ip-address`
     - Fill in the username and IP address of your remote maschine.
-    - For example: `ssh-copy-id foo@192.168.178.123`
+    - For example: `$ ssh-copy-id foo@192.168.178.123`
 - Additionally: Here's a more detailed [tutorial](https://www.hostinger.com/tutorials/how-to-setup-passwordless-ssh/).
   
 ### 9. Automatic clean orphaned packages.  
@@ -82,17 +82,24 @@ It's mostly distro-agnostic but sometimes specific for [pacman-based distros](ht
 - Description: Automatically retrieve the latest Arch Linux mirrors and write them to the mirrorlist.  
 - Requires: An Arch-based distro and [reflector](https://xyne.dev/projects/reflector/).  
 - How-to: Install reflector and enable the reflector.timer.  
-    - `# systemctl enable reflector.timer`  
+    - `$ systemctl enable reflector.timer`  
 - Additionally: [ArchWiki: Reflector](https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Reflector#systemd_timer).  
   
 ### 11. Extract text containing keywords from any file.
 - Description: This command will filter and sort text based on keyword from any file(s).  
 - Requires: [GNU Coreutils](https://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/), [GNU grep](https://www.gnu.org/software/grep/)  
 - How-to:  
-    - `cat ./*/files* | grep -e keyword1 -e keyword2 | sort -u | nl > file`
+    - `$ cat ./*/files* | grep -e keyword1 -e keyword2 | sort -u | nl > file`
     - `cat` will take any file(s), multiple files in multiple subdirectories can be specified.  
     - `grep -e` will look for any and/or all specified keywords.
     - `sort -u` will sort the results alphabetically and remove duplicates.  
     - `nl` will add a number in front of every result (optionally).  
     - `>` will write everything in a specified file.
 - Additionally: This is simply an example of how useful the coreutils can be, especially when used together.
+
+### 12. Enable parallel downloads for pacman.  
+- Description: Enable parallel downloads for faster updates with pacman.  
+- Requires: A [pacman-based distro](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Linux_distributions#Pacman-based).  
+- How-to: Edit pacman's config-file at `/etc/pacman.conf` and uncomment `ParallelDownloads` and add a number of parallel downloads like 5 or 10.
+    - `# nano /etc/pacman.conf`
+- Additionally: [ArchWiki: Pacman](https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Pacman#Enabling_parallel_downloads).