help with shell script

Parv parv at pair.com
Thu Oct 13 00:26:52 PDT 2005


in message <20051012204909.J78693 at wolf.pjkh.com>,
wrote Philip Hallstrom thusly...
>
> #!/bin/sh
> 
> newline='\
> '
> 
> pkg_info -as | \
>         tr '\n' ' ' | \
>         sed -e 's/Package Size://g' \
>                 -e "s/(1K-blocks)/$newline/g" |\
>         sed -e 's/^  *Information for //'

Holy cow, i was going about it all wrong!  No wonder it was taking
me too long for this; i was parsing some things instead of removing
others.


  - Parv

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