[plug] re: awk

[Jon Miller]

All I needed was a way to strip off the .i386.rpm because I do a monthly
download of packages and I needed a way to compare what I already have
to what I downloaded.  Anything that is different is downloaded.
But I needed a way to generate the listing first.

Thanks all.

Jon

On Sun, 2003-07-20 at 21:14, Craig Ringer wrote:
> > I find the hyphens useful in differentiation between parts of a package,
> 
> OK, but the separator used to separate the version and pkgname should 
> not be allowed in the pkgname. So instead maybe use underscores to 
> separate version and pkgname - whatever. So long as they'd chosen 
> something that was easy to use with shell tools like awk and cut. Debian 
> got this right with dpkg.
> 
> Craig Ringer
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