On Sun, Nov 07, 1999 at 15:33:51 +0100, Michelle Konzack wrote:
> MK> dpkg -l | grep "^.i" >pkgs-installed
> ^^^^^^^^^^
>
> What is this with 'grep' ???
grep selects lines, in this case
'^': start of line, followed by
'.': any single character, followed by
'i': the character 'i'
i.e. only show those lines of 'dpkg -l' output that have an 'i' (for
installed) as their second character.
HTH,
Ray
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