Package: debian-reference
Version: 1.08-3
Severity: wishlist
On Tue, Apr 26, 2005 at 09:22:33AM -0400, David Sewell wrote:
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> Date: Tue, 26 Apr 2005 17:09:36 +1000
> From: Amos Shapira <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: small improvement to debian reference manual
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> You can make use of the fgrep "-c" option to achieve the same
> number more nicely:
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> apt-show-versions | fgrep -c /testing
Yes but ... beyond taste issues over command styles, do you see
significant improvement of using -c option?
I personally like to use simple idioms in combination. (Your fgrep may
not have -c option in some situation. Busybox at this moment lacks
fgrep but grep in it comes without -c option.)
Maybe I should have used "fgrep /testing | wc -l". This needs to be
fixed at next upload for all languages.
Keeping piped format let our reader think more how unix tools work
together :-)
Anyway, please report this kind of thing to Debian BTS like this mail.
Osamu
PS: Since aptitude does not have ways to indicate
testing/unstable/..., this apt-show-versions is nice tool.
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