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. -- . O . O . O . . O O . . . O . . . O . O O O . O . O O . . O O O O . O . . O O O O . O O O
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