On Wed, Mar 28, 2001 at 11:01:55AM -0500, W. Crowshaw wrote: > On Wed, Mar 28, 2001 at 04:47:39AM -0400, Peter Cordes wrote: > > > > grep -l '^[\./]*bin/' /var/lib/dpkg/info/*.list | # find pkgs with file in > > /bin > > sed -e sX/var/lib/dpkg/info/XX -e 'sX\.list$XX' | # strip down to pkg name > > xargs apt-get --reinstall install # reinstall them. > > > Thank you SO MUCH!! For some reason the grep | sed | xargs apt-get command > didn't work together. But independently using grep and sed I got the list > of packages that I needed.
cool, glad I could help. > Once again, thank you so much. I thought I was totally screwed. You were, just not unrecoverably so :) -- #define X(x,y) x##y Peter Cordes ; e-mail: X([EMAIL PROTECTED] , ns.ca) "The gods confound the man who first found out how to distinguish the hours! Confound him, too, who in this place set up a sundial, to cut and hack my day so wretchedly into small pieces!" -- Plautus, 200 BCE
