[nycbug-talk] what are your usefull hacks, the real simple ones

[Marc Spitzer]

Well I was curious how out of wack my installed ports were, after a
portsnap update, and came up with this:

pkg_version|awk '{ a[$2]++} END {for (i in a) { print i ,a[i]}}'

to give me a sumery, which got refined into this bash function:

pkg_version () { /usr/sbin/pkg_version $@ |
     awk '{ a[$2]++; print $0 } END {print ""; for (i in a) { print i ,a[i]}}';
}

which now sits in my .bash_profile/.profile.

any other short and quick hacks out there?

marc
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