Eduardo M KALINOWSKI wrote: > 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*'
Let's see: dpkg -l w* dpkg-query: no packages found matching webplot.txt dpkg -l 'w*' Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold | Status=Not/Inst/Conf-files/Unpacked/halF-conf/Half-inst/trig-aWait/Trig-pend |/ Err?=(none)/Reinst-required (Status,Err: uppercase=bad) ||/ Name Version Architecture Description +++-==============-============-============-================================= un w-bassman <none> <none> (no description available) ii w3m 0.5.3-34+deb amd64 WWW browsable pager with excellen un w3m-el <none> <none> (no description available) un w3m-img <none> <none> (no description available) un w3m-ssl <none> <none> (no description available) un w3mmee <none> <none> (no description available) un wacom-tools <none> <none> (no description available) un wajig <none> <none> (no description available) ii wamerican 7.1-1 all American English dictionary words un watch <none> <none> (no description available) un watchdog <none> <none> (no description available) un wbritish <none> <none> (no description available) un wdiff <none> <none> (no description available) .... -dsr-
