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Re: List of package descriptions in one subkategory



On Du, 23 feb 14, 14:19:52, Joe Dalton wrote:
> Hi I can easily use f.ex Synaptic and see a list of all package 
> descriptions f.ex in Science, but how do I get this list out in a 
> file.txt (or something similar).

You could start with something like this:

for pkg in `aptitude search ~sscience~Aunstable -F %p` ; do apt-cache show $pkg >> science.txt ; done

(may take a while to complete)

Kind regards,
Andrei
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