zsh: add outdated package count to motd

diff --git a/zsh/lib/motd.zsh b/zsh/lib/motd.zsh
index a1fd32b80c73e647320827a08d8751ac3ea5eca3..dd492153183a5aa17883b5b1fa18987a8861b0f0 100644 (file)
--- a/zsh/lib/motd.zsh
+++ b/zsh/lib/motd.zsh
@@ -14,3 +14,9 @@ if [[ -d ~/org ]]; then
     # 44 seems to be the number of color escape characters used by grep
     todo | cut -c-$((COLUMNS + 44))
 fi
+
+# checkupdate.service populates this db
+pkg_count=$(checkupdates -n | grep -cv '\[.*\]')
+if (( $pkg_count > 0 )); then
+    short "Outdated packages: $pkg_count"
+fi