[Slackbuilds-users] Getting package descriptions

[Klaatu]

On 11/24/2014 06:02 PM, Antonio Hernández Blas wrote:
> On Sun, Nov 23, 2014 at 10:18 PM, JCA <1.41421 at gmail.com
> <mailto:1.41421 at gmail.com>> wrote:
> 
>     Is there a simple way of getting the description of each and every
>     package hosted at slackbuilds.org <http://slackbuilds.org>? Many
>     (most?) packages have names
>     that are not all that descriptive, and therefore there are packages in
>     there that one might be interested in, without knowing it.
> 
> 
> If your SBo local repository is at /usr/ports:
> 
> find /usr/ports/ -iname "slack-desc" | while read f; do grep '^.*: ' $f
> | head -1 ;done | sort > /tmp/descs.txt
> 
> And finally:
> 
> less -S /tmp/descs.txt
> 
> - Cheers
> 
> -- 
> Antonio Hernández Blas | Oaxaca, México, Mx.
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Someone else keeps their slackbuilds in /usr/ports. And here I thought I
was the only one.

- klaatu