On Fri, Dec 28, 2001 at 10:54:56PM -0600, Nori Heikkinen wrote:
| from the dpgk(8) manpage, ll. 119-123:
|
| ACTIONS
| dpkg -i | --install package_file...
| Install the package. If --recursive or -R option is
| specified, package_file must refer to a directory
| instead.
|
| shouldn't this be either
|
| dpgk -i package_file.deb
|
| OR
|
| dpgk --install package_file.deb
Yes.
| ? as i'm understanding it (which may not be too well), the command dpkg -i is
| piped to --install package_file, to which bash rightly responds:
That vertical bar is used not as a pipe symbol (as bash treats it) but
as a regex alternation (meaning, roughly, "or"). It means that you
can use the option "-i" or the option "--install".
-D
--
Better a little with righteousness
than much gain with injustice.
Proverbs 16:8
