On 07/09/13 19:02, Chris Bannister wrote: > 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? :) > wget -O - ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian/dists/sid/main/binary-i386/Packages.gz |zgrep -c ^Package:
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