Gentoo Archives: gentoo-dev

From: Matthew Kennedy <mbkennedy@×××××××××.com>
To: gentoo-dev@g.o
Cc: mrfab@×××.net
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Gentoo observations
Date: Sat, 09 Mar 2002 21:39:50
Message-Id: 1015730957.15287.15.camel@gentoo.shacknet.nu
In Reply to: [gentoo-dev] Gentoo observations by mrfab@arn.net
1 Howdy,
2
3 > I may be just missing something, but it seemed odd
4 > to me that there wasn't someplace I could look to
5 > get a full index of ebuilds and descriptions. As a
6 > quick hack I used the command below--but it
7 > certainly isn't very elegant at all.
8 >
9 > for x in `find /usr/portage/ -name '*.ebuild'` ; do ; echo `basename $x .ebuild` `grep DESCRIPTION $x` ; done > packages
10
11 Try
12
13 emerge --search ".*"
14
15 --search takes a regex (it's all in man emerge)
16
17 Matt