Hi Jerome, Jerome BENOIT wrote: > I was looking for a ready to use tool to extract the components: > I guess I have to write my own stuff to do so.
How about: $ tar --to-stdout -xf emacs23-non-dfsg_23.4+1-1.debian.tar.gz debian/control | grep ^Section: Section: non-free/editors Section: non-free/editors Which can be automated to extract just the field from the packages. $ tar xf emacs23-non-dfsg_23.4+1-1.debian.tar.gz --to-stdout debian/control | sed -n '/^Section:/{s/.* //;s@/.*@@p;q}' non-free Bob
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