Re: SED help needed.
Christoph Lameter <clameter@waterf.org> writes:
> I am trying to develop a sed script to extract a package description based
> on the virtual package name but cannot get it to work:
A simpler solution is to split on blank lines, which sed can't do.
Use perl:
perl -n000e 'print if /Provides:.* elf-x11r6/' /var/lib/dpkg/status
Guy
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