... Great community-driven thinking and implementation! Now what we really need is a command to read all the long descriptions, as so much typing work has been put in them to be written, that they should also be read; it would go somewhere along these lines:
Code:
ls /var/log/packages | while read fn
do
START=`cat /var/log/packages/${fn} | grep -n "PACKAGE DESCRIPTION" | cut -d ':' -f 1`
END=`cat /var/log/packages/${fn} | grep -n "FILE LIST" | cut -d ':' -f 1`
((END-=1))
((LINES=END-START))
cat /var/log/packages/${fn} | head -n ${END} | tail -n ${LINES} | cut -d ':' -f 2
echo -n "Press -enter- for the next package"
read go_on
done
Also, what'd have been cool is an animated ascii of a penguin with a wizard hat telling how fast and more stable everything has become... ^.^