get detailed info of installed RPM packages

for rpm-based distros

rpmsortinst.sh

@@ -1,58 +1,30 @@
 #!/bin/bash
 
+# for RPM-based distros
+# get detailed installed-packages info
+
 echo "Getting sorted list of installed pkgs..."
 date
 
-rpm -qa |sort >~/Installedpkgs.list
-echo EOF>>~/Installedpkgs.list
+time rpm -qa |sort >~/Installedpkgs.list
+#echo EOF>>~/Installedpkgs.list
 
-echo "Done with sort"
-date
-
-let tr=1
-let thisline=0
-
-echo "Reading sorted list into array..."
-{
- while read elemt; do
-  let thisline=$thisline+1
-
-  # Skip comments
-  commentmp=`(echo $elemt |grep -c -e "\#")`
-  test4blank=${elemt//" "/""}
-
-  if [ $commentmp -gt 0 ]; then
-    echo "Found a comment in line "$thisline".  Skipping."
-  elif [ ${#test4blank} -eq 0 ]; then
-    echo "Blank line at "$thisline".  Skipping."
-  elif [ "$elemt" = "EOF" ]; then
-    echo "EOF found in line "$thisline"."
-    break
-  else
-    riptrack[$tr]=$elemt
-    let tr=$tr+1
-  fi
-
- done
-} < ~/Installedpkgs.list
-echo "Done with array = "$tr" elements."
-date
-
-# Repeat array
-#for i in "${riptrack[@]}"; do
-# echo $i
-#done
+echo "$(date) - Done with sort"
 
 # Blank it
->~/RPMInstalled.list
+outfile=~/RPMInstalled.list.txt
+> $outfile
 
 echo "Querying all installed pkgs for details..."
 # Do it
-for i in "${riptrack[@]}"; do
- rpm -qi $i >>~/RPMInstalled.list
+for i in $(cat ~/Installedpkgs.list); do
+ rpm -qi $i >>$outfile
 done
 
-echo "Done- PK"
-date
-#read
+echo "$(date) - Done"
 #less ~/RPMInstalled.list
+ls -alh $outfile
+
+exit;
+
+# 2021.0408 rewrite simpler