Arch Linux takes its bottom up approach very seriously and the system you start with has basically nothing but the bare essentials installed. I got a bit tired of seeing glitchy text on the web because my system didn't have have them, so since I have a pretty powerful computer with a ton of storage I thought I would install all the available fonts in the repos. So I went to the shell and did

$ pacman -Ss ttf font

and got output that looked something like

extra/gnu-free-fonts 20120503-8
    A free family of scalable outline fonts
extra/noto-fonts 20201226-2
    Google Noto TTF fonts
extra/noto-fonts-extra 20201226-2
    Google Noto TTF fonts - additional variants
extra/sdl2_ttf 2.0.15-2
    A library that allows you to use TrueType fonts in your SDL applications (Version 2)
extra/ttf-bitstream-vera 1.10-14
    Bitstream Vera fonts.
extra/ttf-caladea 20200113-3
    A serif font family metric-compatible with Cambria font family
...

It was a pretty long list of packages, all with pretty long names, and I really couldn't be bothered typing all of those out. So I started digging to figure out how I could use the output from pacman -Ss to pacman -S. I came up with the following (probably less than optimal) solution:

xargs -a <(pacman -Ss ttf font | grep "^[a-zA-Z0-9]" | sed 's/^.\+\///; s/\ .*$//' | grep -v "ttf-nerd-fonts-symbols-mono") sudo pacman -S

It probably took me longer to figure out how to do this and to then write this blog post about it, but anyway, let's disect it:

1. Inside the parentheses we pipe the output from pacman -Ss to grep where we only want to get the lines that start with a letter and number. The regular expression ^[a-zA-Z0-9] will achieve this. The indented lines describe the package and are useless; they are filtered out.
2. We pipe those lines to sed, where we remove everything before the forward slash with the expression s/^.\+\///, where we look for the start of the line (^), then any kind of characters (.) a number of times (\+), then a slash \/ and we replace with nothing. We also remove everything after the space (\) until the end of the line ($).
3. (Optional) I piped this again to grep because this package conflicted with another package. With -v, I let everything pass except the matches
4. This is directed to xargs with the -a flag which passes the list of packages to pacman. The reason we can't just pipe the output of the second grep to xargs is because pacman requires yes/no confirmation, which is not possible in that mode. A helpful stack exchange thread on this can be found here.

Hopefully this could be helpful if you want to do something similar.