Thanks Andrew, but I think giving a fileglob to dpkg is more efficient in this case, dpkg finds everything containing reiser, but grepping dosen't work since the output already have been cut :(
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/coda$ dpkg -l '*reiser*' Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold | Status=Not/Installed/Config-files/Unpacked/Failed-config/Half-installed |/ Err?=(none)/Hold/Reinst-required/X=both-problems (Status,Err: uppercase=bad) ||/ Name Version Description +++-===============-===============-============================================== un kernel-headers- <none> (no description available) un kernel-image-2. <none> (no description available) un kernel-patch-2. <none> (no description available) un kernel-patch-2. <none> (no description available) un kernel-patch-2. <none> (no description available) un kernel-patch-2. <none> (no description available) ii reiserfsprogs 3.x.0j-7 User-level tools for ReiserFS filesystems [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/coda$ dpkg -l | grep reiser ii reiserfsprogs 3.x.0j-7 User-level tools for ReiserFS filesystems On Thursday 20 December 2001 12:52, you wrote: > On 2001.12.20 17:03 Bill wrote: > > Hi, > > > > i've got a sad situation i don't understand: dpkg -l don't seems to be > > hiding > > some packages from my view. this is disturbing since I use dpkg as my > > information source on what software I can easily install on my systems > > > > > > dpkg just dosen't see the package: > > > > tormentor:/etc/apt# dpkg -l '*coda*' > > No packages found matching *coda*. > > try this: > > dpkg -l | grep coda > > This is because dpkg is trying to match 'coda' as a package name. > Use grep so it will show any package name with "coda" in it. > > > -- > Andrew -- Billy Nadeau - [EMAIL PROTECTED] PGP Fingerprint 1702 404D 2F63 A799 B5A2 00A1 B362 C7BF 7325 8634
