On Fri, 9 Jan 2015, Vincent Lefevre wrote: > > You can pipe the output to "head" or "tail" to sort of achieve what you > > want to. > > Obviously not. It may be possible with something like sed or perl, > but this may not be future-proof, and breakage due to changes in
Nonsense, the format is trivial and stable. A quick one-line-ish fix for this (requires a modern shell) is: apt-cache show texlive-latex-extra | tr '\n' $'\001' | sed $'s/\001 / /g' | tr $'\001' '\n' | sort | less +-S 109 columns, it just barely fits on my screen, agreed. But workable. And quick to type out yourself. And then, there’s this nice, magic tool. For example: grep-aptavail -P texlive-latex-extra -d -s Package,Version,Description,Maintainer Only thing it can’t do is to just… grep-aptavail -P texlive-latex-extra -d … because that shows o̲n̲l̲y̲ the Description field, and the syntax does not offer showing *all* fields while shortening the Description field. Anyway: +1 for keeping these long descriptions. Bad descriptions (too short extended Description, non-descriptive short description, and the repetitive issue Adam Majer mentioned) are a much worse problem, and I wonder often when I see a buildd eMail from a package where the description is, to add insult to injury, generated. (And then, often badly wrapped.) bye, //mirabilos -- FWIW, I'm quite impressed with mksh interactively. I thought it was much *much* more bare bones. But it turns out it beats the living hell out of ksh93 in that respect. I'd even consider it for my daily use if I hadn't wasted half my life on my zsh setup. :-) -- Frank Terbeck in #!/bin/mksh -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/alpine.deb.2.11.1501101327140.20...@tglase.lan.tarent.de
