On Vi, 29 mai 20, 08:29:44, Greg Wooledge wrote: > On Fri, May 29, 2020 at 08:20:59AM -0400, The Wanderer wrote: > > >> $ dpkg -l "*4.9.0*" | grep ii > > > > > > First I had to figure out (google) to find what the leading ii > > > means, > > > > It took me a moment to catch what you meant by this; standard > > terminology would describe that as a "trailing" ii, because it's at the > > end of the line (thus behind, seen last, trailing) rather than the > > beginning (thus ahead, seen first, leading). > > Either you're extremely confused, or you've done something to distort > the output. > > In the standard output of dpkg -l, in the C locale, or in the en_US > locale, the indicator columns ("ii" and so on) are FIRST. They are > leading characters, not trailing. > > It's hard for me to even imagine how you could have this so completely > backwards. Maybe you're on some Right-To-Left locale (Hebrew?). Or > maybe you've got a learning disorder such as dyslexia...? I'm honestly > quite puzzled.
I'm guessing The Wanderer was talking about the one-liner, not dpkg's output ;) Kind regards, Andrei -- http://wiki.debian.org/FAQsFromDebianUser
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