On Thu, Sep 05, 2013 at 10:06:46PM +0100, Brian wrote:
> On Thu 05 Sep 2013 at 22:16:39 +0200, sp113438 wrote:
> 
> > How do I find out the number of packages currently in Sid?
> > Google did not help me.
> 
> An example:
> 
>   wget ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian/dists/sid/main/binary-i386/Packages.gz
> 
>   gunzip Packages.gz
> 
>   grep ^Package: Packages | wc -l

Hey! What's wrong with zgrep? :)

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