SJS wrote: > 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. >
You're right! My fumble. Thanks. I'd like my tbird to allow me to override line wrapping for such lines, but I haven't figured out how to do it. Regards, ..jim -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
