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Package Grep source and Program not installed functionality
- From: "John Morrison" <john at morrison dot mine dot nu>
- To: cygwin-apps at cygwin dot com
- Date: Tue, 29 Jul 2008 13:11:38 +0100 (BST)
- Subject: Package Grep source and Program not installed functionality
Hi All,
Would it be possible to extend the cgi
http://cygwin.com/cgi-bin2/package-grep.cgi
to (optionally) output plain text instead of the formatted HTML?
Add a output=text instruction? If the source is available I'd be willing
to see if I could do the mod. I was thinking of some kind of command line
which would simplify the users finding out what package they would need to
install to access a particular tool, for example on my ubuntu machine;
john@hela:~$ gedit
The program 'gedit' is currently not installed. You can install it by
typing:
sudo apt-get install gedit
bash: gedit: command not found
Perhaps the cygwin version could be
john@cygwin:~$ curl
The program 'curl' is currently not installed. You can install it from
the following package(s);
curl/curl-7.15.1-1 command line tool for transferring files with HTTP,
HTTPS, FTP, etc.
curl/curl-7.15.4-1 command line tool for transferring files with HTTP,
HTTPS, FTP, etc.
curl/curl-7.16.3-1 command line tool for transferring files with HTTP,
HTTPS, FTP, etc.
where the tool could use the package-grep.cgi?output=text&grep=/curl.exe
I don't know how the instruction get's fired, is there something in bash
which says "run this if you don't find a program"?
What do you folks think? Doable? Useful?
John.