Michelle Konzack writes:
>Thanks,
>
>but now a new question:
>
>MK>Hi,
>MK>
>MK> dpkg -l | grep "^.i" >pkgs-installed
> ^^^^^^^^^^
>
>What is this with 'grep' ???
>
'man grep'
DESCRIPTION
Grep searches the named input files (or standard input if
no files are named, or the file name - is given) for lines
containing a match to the given pattern. By default, grep
prints the matching lines.
And the pattern in this case is ^.i which says,
^ only match on the first character of the input
. match any single character after that
i match the letter "i"
So it will find any lines that have any character in the first column and
the letter i in the second. Look at the raw output of 'dpkg -l' to
see what the letter "i" in the second column means.
Brian Servis
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