On 21 de dezembro de 2018 20:24, aprekates wrote: > In a new installed system with Debian 9.6 > > $ dpkg -l > > will list only packages with 'ii' state and a couple of 'rc'. > > But if i run: > > $ dpkg -l w* > > i will get a dozen also of 'un' packages. > > So i dont understand the logic of altering the output when > i use a pattern . I would expect to see only 'ii' packages starting > from the letter 'w' . > > Also i dont understand why in a new system dpkg would know > anything about uninstalled packages!
dpkg -l w* will be expanded by the shell (if there is any file starting with w in the current directory). Have you tried dpkg -l 'w*' ?
