John H. Robinson, IV wrote: > James G. Sack (jim) wrote: >> debian's package manager has a command recipe >> dpkg -l [pattern] >> which gives a nice tabulated 1-line output for installed packages >> Name .. Version .. Description >> >> (I wonder if there might even be a way to get a (_big_) list >> like this of available packages .. deb-gurus: ..?) > > $ grep -h -E '^(Package|Description): ' /var/lib/apt/lists/*Packages > > That will get you most of the way there. On my system, that results in > 38,168 lines of output from 19,084 available packages (or, 579 printed > pages assuming 66 lines per page). > > -john > > 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"' > > Down to 290 printed pages! > >
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