Yes, i noticed that w* will pass if there is no such file in
current dir.
But still i cant understand the output so i submit
bugreport Bug#917098:
Thanks all for the feedback.
On 22/12/18 6:13 μ.μ., Joe Pfeiffer wrote:
Dan Ritter <d...@randomstring.org> writes:
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
<snip>
It's important to keep in mind that if there are no files matching the
wildcard expansion, the w* is passed as-is to the command. So if I
create an empty directory, enter the directory, and
snowball:525$ 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 descripti
<long list snipped>
snowball:525$ touch w
snowball:526$ dpkg -l w*
dpkg-query: no packages found matching w
Yes, the OP does want in general to escape the w* as 'w*' (or other
methods), but his output is completely reasonable, especially in a fresh
install
