begin quoting James G. Sack (jim) as of Mon, Dec 03, 2007 at 12:57:56PM -0800: > John H. Robinson, IV wrote: [snip] > > Add some perl and blamo! > > > > $ grep -h -E '^(Package|Description): ' /var/lib/apt/lists/*Packages|perl > > -ne '/^P\S+: (.*)/ and $p=$1;/^D\S+: (.*)/ and print "$p: $1\n"'
I might make an alias of that... > Ahhh, thanks. > > grep -h -E '^(Package|Description): \ > '/var/lib/apt/lists/*Packages|head -4 Um, I don't think you want to break it there... plus, you want a space between the closing quote and /var/lib/apt/whatnot. -- Awk should do it. Stewart Stremler -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
