[nycbug-talk] pkg_info

[Okan Demirmen]

On Mon 2004.02.23 at 16:50 -0500, jc wrote:
> I'm not in love with myself or anything, but I like to check my packages
> every once in a while. I was doing some stuff [which I'd probably have never
> ventured to do w/o the help of freebsddiary.org] and needed to get the
> installed packages without the descriptions. I made a perl script which
> would s/^ +$//. It was a little more than a one-liner, but I had to... let
> me be explicit:
> 
> 
> open PKG, "pkg_info |";
> while (<PKG>) {
>     s/^ +$//;   # theres a space between ^ +
>     print;
> }
> 
> How else can I do this? Whats the regex to use in sed? I know it's boring,
> but I'm bored.

or: ls /var/db/pkg

okan

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