On Mi, 01 dec 10, 14:29:34, Bob Proulx wrote: > Andrei Popescu wrote: > > You don't even need the Do you read minds? This should have been "... the grep", but I stopped to check the man page and then forgot to remove it ;)
> > 'dpkg -l' is fine as well, if used properly ;) > > > > $ dpkg -l tofrodos > > No packages found matching tofrodos. > > However that doesn't handle packages that had been installed but are > now removed but not purged leaving configuration files behind. You still need the grep, what I meant was that 'dpkg -l <package>' should be the same as 'dpkg --status <package>'[1], but many people tend to forget that -l takes a pattern and prefer to use grep to search for the needed package. [1] they are actually both calls to dpkg-query(1) Regards, Andrei -- Offtopic discussions among Debian users and developers: http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/d-community-offtopic
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