find: add --hashes shortcut for piping to other commands (#38663)

People frequently ask us how to pipe `spack find` output to other commands, and we tell
them to do things like this:

```console
$ spack find --format "/{hash}" | spack uninstall -ay
```

Sometimes users don't know about hash references and come up with potentially ambiguous
formulations like this:

```console
spack find --format {name}@{version}%{compiler} | spack uninstall -ay
```

Since this is a common enough thing to want to do, and to make it more obvious how, this
PR adds a `-H` / `--hashes` as a shortcut, so you can now just do:

```console
spack find -H | spack uninstall -ay
```
This commit is contained in:
Todd Gamblin
2023-07-10 00:43:37 -07:00
committed by GitHub
parent 27c62b981a
commit 757f8ae59c
2 changed files with 9 additions and 1 deletions

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@@ -30,6 +30,14 @@ def setup_parser(subparser):
default=None,
help="output specs with the specified format string",
)
format_group.add_argument(
"-H",
"--hashes",
action="store_const",
dest="format",
const="{/hash}",
help="same as '--format {/hash}'; use with xargs or $()",
)
format_group.add_argument(
"--json",
action="store_true",