Index Question

[Steven Grace]

On 01/08/2014 03:23 PM, kbun at xpresso.seaslug.org wrote:
>
> I don't recall if it was apt/apt-get/aptitude/other, but
> way back, (during the great dinosaur die off), someone
> posted to the list, a command that generated a _long_
> index listing of filenames available for download, along
> with a one line discription of what the program was or
> what it did.
>
> Anyone happen to recall, or know what that command was/is?

Could it have been this?

    apt-cache search . > filelist.txt

On my system this generated a file of over 40,000 lines.