[nycbug-talk] pkg_info

[Jan Schaumann]

Marc Spitzer <mspitze1 at optonline.net> wrote:
 
> pkg_info |awk '{print $1}'

pkg_info | cut -d' ' -f1
pkg_info | sed -e 's/\(^[^ ]*\).*/\1/'

But 'ls /var/db/pkg' and 'pkg_info -e '*'' are faster than the three
above (and speed sure counts in this instance, n'est-ce pas?).

And for extra-credit, if you hosed your system and can't use either
pkg_info or ls, you can let the shell do it all for you:

cd /var/db/pkg
echo *

-Jan

-- 
I always said there was something fundamentally wrong with the universe.
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