Thanks Andrei, this was very helpful (it was very fast; no problem there) bye Joe Danish
-------------------------------------------- Den søn 23/2/14 skrev Andrei POPESCU <andreimpope...@gmail.com>: Emne: Re: List of package descriptions in one subkategory Til: debian-i18n@lists.debian.org Dato: søndag 23. februar 2014 16.00 On Du, 23 feb 14, 14:19:52, Joe Dalton wrote: > Hi I can easily use f.ex Synaptic and see a list of all package > descriptions f.ex in Science, but how do I get this list out in a > file.txt (or something similar). You could start with something like this: for pkg in `aptitude search ~sscience~Aunstable -F %p` ; do apt-cache show $pkg >> science.txt ; done (may take a while to complete) Kind regards, Andrei -- http://wiki.debian.org/FAQsFromDebianUser Offtopic discussions among Debian users and developers: http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/d-community-offtopic http://nuvreauspam.ro/gpg-transition.txt -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-i18n-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/1393363906.17525.yahoomailba...@web171406.mail.ir2.yahoo.com
