On Dec 1, 2007 7:47 AM, rbw <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> When updating/upgrading after installing Fedora
> 8 I used YumEx which gives a selection panel and
> panels to get a description and another panel to
> list all the files that are installed with the app.
>
> It is true there are apps and tools that I
> suppose others like me have also never used and
> would like to know about and use. Now I want to
> look up if that description field can be spit
> out from the command line. Right now I would
> probably use one of these:
> man [command]
> info [command]
> apropos [command]
>
If you want a lot of information, you could do the following:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] yum]$ yum info available > info_2007-12-01
[EMAIL PROTECTED] yum]$ wc -l !$
wc -l info_2007-12-01
65610 info_2007-12-01
And get 1000 or more pages of information, namely all of the
descriptions that are brought up one at a time by Yumex. Note that
while there are only about 66000 lines, a few of them are pretty long.
You could then browse at leisure with the editor of your choice.
carl
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