Index Question

[Alan Dacey (grokit)]

On Wednesday, January 08, 2014 11:23:33 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?
> 
> TIA
> 
> Bill
> 

 
To get all packages available and put them in nice columns you should use this:
 
  apt-cache search [a-z] | sort | sed 's/ - /        /1' | column -t -c 2 -s '       ' > all-packages.txt
 
The couple of spaces in the sed command and after the -s in the column command are actually tabs.  To type them you have to press ctrl-V and then the tab key if a copy and paste fails.
This gives me 43,241 lines so that looks like all of them.
 
If you need to see all packages and all architectures, ie. 32 & 64 bit,  you can use "aptitude search [a-z]" but the description column is only 42 characters so most of it is cut off.
 
Alan
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