On Thu, Apr 19, 2001 at 11:50:44AM -0700, Cory Petkovsek wrote:
>dpkg -l
>shows a package listing
>
>dpkg -l |grep ii
>shows installed packages (and descriptions)
>
I tried that in a pipeline,
dpkg -l '*' | grep "^ii" | awk '{print $2}'
but i found that the package name got truncated; some experiments with
dpkg -l '*' | head (various other bits) led me to conclude that package
name truncation is a bug with dpkg -l. I've mentioned dpkg-awk in a
previous message; it gave me installed packages with no truncation, which
was a definite win.
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