list-module-packages

#!/bin/bash

source "/etc/profile.d/modules.sh"
# Modules version 5.1.0 adds the redirection option we need to make this consistent
source "/shared/ucl/apps/modules/5.1.0/init/bash"

module load --auto python3/recommended 2>/dev/null >/dev/null

# If we don't load these modules, the beta modules and workaround modules aren't visible
module load workaround-modules
module load beta-modules

temp_file_dir="$(mktemp -d)"


# This does an extremely dodgy YAML conversion.
module whatis --redirect --no-pager \
    | grep -e ':' -e '---' \
    | sed -e 's/"/\\"/g' \
          -e 's/^ *//' \
          -e 's/^\([^-][^:]*\): \(.*\)/    - Name: "\1"\n      Description: "\2"/' \
          -e 's@^---* [^ ]*/\([^ /]*\) ---*$@\1:@' \
    > "$temp_file_dir/tmp.whatis.yaml"

<"$temp_file_dir/tmp.whatis.yaml" \
    python -c '
import yaml
import json
import sys
import datetime

package_list = yaml.safe_load(sys.stdin.read())

utc_dt = datetime.datetime.now(datetime.timezone.utc) # UTC time
dt = utc_dt.astimezone() # local time
info = {"generated": dt.strftime("%Y-%m-%dT%H:%M:%S%z"),
        "package_groups": package_list}

print(json.dumps(info, indent=3))
'

'rm' "$temp_file_dir/tmp.whatis.yaml"