On Sun, Apr 26, 2020 at 01:30:11AM +0200, l0f...@tuta.io wrote:
> Hi Marco,
>
> 25 avr. 2020 à 23:12 de ta...@debianlists.mobilxpress.net:
>
> > To receive the date from the changelog is the closest I would know of,
> > after I for myself have been searching for this in the past. I then
> > constructed some ugly but well working CLI (bash) command:
> >
> > apt-get changelog PACKAGENAME 2> /dev/null| grep -m 1 "^ --" 2> /dev/null|
> > cut -d'>' -f2 2> /dev/null| cut -c 3- 2> /dev/null | cut -d' ' --complement
> > -s -f6 2> /dev/null
> >
> I didn't know about apt(-get) changelog, thank you :)
> However, I note there is no direct command to obtain the expected result
> according to you.
> NB: I have a suggestion for your command, same logic but probably less
> resource-consuming because there is only one pipe:
> apt-get changelog PACKAGENAME 2>/dev/null | awk 'BEGIN{FS=">"} /--/{sub("
> ","",$2);print $2;exit}'
>
That's neat. You could turn into a shell function too:
roberto@miami:~$ pkg_date() {
> apt-get changelog "$1" 2>/dev/null | awk 'BEGIN{FS=">"} /--/{sub("
> ","",$2);print $2;exit}'
> }
roberto@miami:~$ pkg_date chromium
Thu, 02 Apr 2020 22:23:57 +0000
Regards,
-Roberto
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Roberto C. Sánchez
