Re: List of package descriptions in one subkategory

[Joe Dalton <joedalton2@yahoo.dk>]

Thanks Andrei, this was very helpful

(it was very fast; no problem there)
bye
Joe
Danish


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Den søn 23/2/14 skrev Andrei POPESCU <andreimpopescu@gmail.com>:

 Emne: Re: List of package descriptions in one subkategory
 Til: debian-i18n@lists.debian.org
 Dato: søndag 23. februar 2014 16.00
 
 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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