songbird wrote: ok, figured the four that are missing and generating null file names are local or obsolete packages that i have installed... that i can work around.
new version of script (with some simple changes to make things go faster and to make it more flexible for other uses): ===== #!/bin/sh # # debarch="/archive/debian/jessie" dest="/var/cache/apt/archives" pkglist=`dpkg -l | egrep '^ii ' | cut --delimiter=' ' -f3,3 | cut --delimiter=':' -f1,1` versionlist=`dpkg -l | egrep '^ii ' | sed -e 's/ */ /g' | cut -d ' ' -f3,3` for pkgname in $pkglist; do version=`echo $versionlist | cut -d ' ' -f1,1` versionlist=`echo $versionlist | cut -d ' ' -f2-` debname=`apt-cache show $pkgname=$version | egrep '^Filename: ' | sed -e 's/^Filename: //' | awk --field-separator='/' -e '{print \$NF}'` if test -e "$debarch/$debname" ; then echo "$debarch/$debname $dest" > /dev/null if test ! -e "$dest/$debname" ; then cp -a "$debarch/$debname" $dest fi else echo "$debname missing? version ->$version<-" fi done chown root $dest/* chgrp root $dest/* sync -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/umkm9b-nba....@id-306963.user.uni-berlin.de