On Wednesday 05 January 2005 22:21, William Ballard wrote: > This is trivial with grep-dctrl and sed. For example:
Thanks, for making me aware of grep-dctrl. > echo '<packages><entry>' > zcat /a/dists/latest/binary-i386/Packages.gz | \ > grep-dctrl -sPackage,Version . | \ > sed -r -e 's/([^:]+):(.+)/<\1>\2<\/\1>/' \ > -e 's/^$/<\/entry><entry>/' | head -n-1; > echo '</entry></packages>' Thanks so far. I think I'll write my own PHP script that will output a more structured XML document, so that I can create hyperlinks from the packages in the 'Depends' field and parse the quasi field 'Homepage'. Frank -- Nunc vino pellite curas! -- Horaz -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
