Finding package-descriptions.

[Bas van Gompel]

Hallo,

Sometimes one wants to read a description for one or more packages.

I wrote following script to retrieve that info from the locally
installed setup-inis. It's parameters are anchored regexes if
the first one is not ``-r'', after which they are plain text:
$ cyg-desc '.*ss[hl]' '.*x11.*'
or
$ cyg-desc -r gtk+ gcc-g++


The script requires /bin/sh, cat, awk, true, false, cygpath, a package-
dir left by setup, /etc/setup/last-mirror and /etc/setup/last-cache.

I hope this is of use to anybody.

L8r,


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