On Mon, Mar 11, 2002 at 12:44:36PM +1100, Andy Eager wrote:
> Just so happens I am working on a script to do a similar thing for the
> LPIC course currently being undertaken at Granville TAFE.
>
> rpm -qai | egrep "^Name|^Size" | sed "s/ */ /g" | awk 'BEGIN {FS=" "} \
> $1 == "Name" && $2 == ":" { printf ("%s: %-40s", $1, $3) } \
> $1 == "Size" && $2 == ":" { printf ("%s: %s\n", $1, $3) }' \
> | sort -k 4 -n > packlist
rpm -qai | awk 'BEGIN {FS=" "} \
$1 == "Name" && $2 == ":" { printf ("%s: %-40s", $1, $3) } \
$1 == "Size" && $2 == ":" { printf ("%s: %s\n", $1, $3) }' \
| sort -k 4 -n > packlist
no need to cleanup before passing to awk. awk is cleverer than you think.
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- Gus
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