The Wanderer <wande...@fastmail.fm> writes:
> On 2020-07-27 at 10:37, The Wanderer wrote:
>
>> What you want to do instead is to run this exact latter command, and
>> pass the output of that into the 'aptitude purge' command.
>
>> Try:
>>
>> $ aptitude purge $(grep "2020-07-23.*.install " /var/log/dpkg.log | awk
>> '{ print $4 }' | tr '\n' ' ')
>>
>> and see what you get.
>
> Turns out that the 'tr' part can be dropped as well; the subshell
> redirection is smart enough for the newlines to be processed correctly.
All right, but with the `tr' part then it's easier to copy and paste the output
and pass it as argument to `# aptitude purge'...
thanks
rodolfo
