On 2020-07-27 at 10:37, The Wanderer wrote: > What you want to do instead is to run this exact latter command, and > pass the output of that into the 'aptitude purge' command.
> Try: > > $ aptitude purge $(grep "2020-07-23.*.install " /var/log/dpkg.log | awk > '{ print $4 }' | tr '\n' ' ') > > and see what you get. Turns out that the 'tr' part can be dropped as well; the subshell redirection is smart enough for the newlines to be processed correctly. All you need to do with the output from grep is reduce it to only column 4. I habitually do that via e.g. "cut -d ' ' -f 4" instead of "awk {print $4}", but the result should be the same, and awk is more versatile. -- The Wanderer The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man. -- George Bernard Shaw
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