On Mon, 30 Apr 2001, Sune Kirkeby wrote: > [ Philip Charles ] > > Would some kind hacker would produce a script which would do something > > like this:- > > > > Script looks at "app-list", and finds "foo" and then looks at "full-list" > > and finds "foo.doc" and prints "foo.doc" to "doc.list". > > I suppose you mean foo-doc, and mean foreach foo in app-list, which > this shell snippit nicely accomplices, > > $ cat app-list | while read LINE ; do grep $LINE-doc full-list ; done \ > > doc-list > > On my Debian box this comes up with eight packages in doc-list (where > both app- and full-list contain all 764 packages installed on my > system.) > Thanks, it will be use later today.
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