On Wed, Feb 14, 2007 at 04:47:03PM +1300, Chris Bannister wrote: > On Mon, Feb 12, 2007 at 11:03:17AM -0800, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > > aptitude install python > > > > and away it goes... when done you have python. > > > > how about tcl? > > > > apt-cache search tcl > > > > this produces 217 packages matching 'tcl', hmmm... lets narrow that > > down by searching just the names of packages and not their > > descriptions > > man wc > > apt-cache search tcl | wc -l > 198 ;-) yes, I used wc... > > You running Sid? Mmmm, already quite a difference between Sid + Etch, > and that is just for the tcl packages! yup. sid on the desktop. > > apt-cache --names-only search tcl | wc -l > 68 andrew@basement:/tmp$ apt-cache -n search tcl | wc -l 74 > > apt-cache --names-only search tcl | grep doc | wc -l > 6 andrew@basement:/tmp$ apt-cache -n search tcl doc | wc -l 6 heh. multiple words in the search string saves a pipe and grep ;-P A
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