on Mon, Apr 29, 2002, Karsten M. Self (kmself@ix.netcom.com) wrote: > on Mon, Apr 22, 2002, Shawn McMahon ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > begin Grant Edwards quotation: > > > > > > > You're arbitrarily nuking things from the source tree. > > > > > > It's not my fault, somebody told me to! > > > > This is a test. > > > > You can restore those files by typing: > > > > dpkg -P `apt-cache pkgnames` > > I suspect you're missing an operator term on your apt-cache command.
Ah. "pkgnames" isn't, as I'd assumed, a metacharacter for "list of packages to operate on", but a string literal which lists the names of all packages installed on the system. I rarely use anything but the 'show' and 'search' directives. 'man apt-cache' will reveal a number of useful options. The '-P' option to dpkg is a shorthand for "purge". Shawn's LART would purge all installed packages on a Debian system. While a useful reminder that unexamined code should not be run on a live system, I don't condone the posting of such examples without warning, regardless the provocation. That said, "It's not my fault, somebody told me to!" is among the Famous Last Words. Peace. -- Karsten M. Self <kmself@ix.netcom.com> http://kmself.home.netcom.com/ What Part of "Gestalt" don't you understand? KQED FM: The bright spot on the dial: http://www.kqed.org/fm/
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