On 6/26/2010 6:58 PM, Aaron Toponce wrote:
> On 6/26/2010 6:55 PM, Aaron Toponce wrote:
>> On 6/26/2010 5:57 PM, giovanni_re wrote:
>>> Is there a way to mashup "apt-cache search <SearchTerm>" & "dpkg -l"
>>> - so that given a SearchTerm,
>>> it would find all the related package names in the cache,
>>> then do a "dpkg -l" on those package names?
>>
>> dpkg -l $(apt-search iceweasel|grep ^i|awk '{print $2}'|tr '\n' ' ')
>
> Actually, looking at that command, I'm sure I could combine the grep,
> awk and tr in a single awk command. This was just "quick and dirty". Of
> course, replace 'iceweasel' with the package(s) you are searching for.
And, I just noticed I used one of my apt aliases.
alias apt-search="aptitude search"
Cheers!
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