From: Neil Bothwick <neil@digimed.co.uk>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] fast CLI package-Changelog viewer
Date: Mon, 31 Mar 2008 10:45:24 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080331104524.45e71615@loonquawl.digimed.co.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200803311331.14308@goldspace.net>
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On Mon, 31 Mar 2008 13:31:14 +0400, Andrew Gaydenko wrote:
> logviewer kdelibs
>
> will "produce" the same output as, say,
>
> less /usr/portage/kde-base/kdelibs/ChangeLog
>
> You see, it is impossible to remember all packages' dirs. Of course, I
> can use 'q' or 'eix' to find a dir and then type in a long 'less ...'
> command. But, well, why do all these 'eix' and 'q' exist? I think to
> save some users' time. Is my intention more clear now? :-)
Yes it is, but a very short shell script would handle this
#!/bin/sh
less $(portageq portdir)/$(eix --exact --only-names $1)/ChangeLog
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-03-31 9:47 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-03-30 17:26 [gentoo-user] fast CLI package-Changelog viewer Andrew Gaydenko
2008-03-30 20:10 ` Neil Bothwick
2008-03-31 3:16 ` Andrew Gaydenko
2008-03-31 8:07 ` Neil Bothwick
2008-03-31 8:17 ` Andrew Gaydenko
2008-03-31 9:17 ` Neil Bothwick
2008-03-31 9:31 ` Andrew Gaydenko
2008-03-31 9:45 ` Neil Bothwick [this message]
2008-03-31 10:02 ` Andrew Gaydenko
2008-03-31 10:25 ` Neil Bothwick
2008-03-31 10:22 ` Etaoin Shrdlu
2008-03-31 11:35 ` Andrew Gaydenko
2008-03-31 11:40 ` Justin
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