On Tue, Oct 05, 1999 at 10:31:35AM +0300, Antti-Juhani Kaijanaho wrote: > Simple: > > grep-status -Pe '.*netscape.*' | grep-dctrl -FStatus -sPackage -n \ > 'install ok installed' | xargs dpkg --purge
Or simpler: grep-status -P netscape | grep-dctrl -FStatus -sPackage -n \ 'install ok installed' | xargs dpkg --purge (Lesson number one, ajk: never use regexps to simulate substring match.) -- %%% Antti-Juhani Kaijanaho % [EMAIL PROTECTED] % http://www.iki.fi/gaia/ %%% "" (John Cage)