The Wanderer <wande...@fastmail.fm> writes:
> On 2020-07-27 at 19:02, Rodolfo Medina wrote:
>
>> 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'...
>
> Quite true, and that's what I thought at first you were doing, until you
> gave the command line with incorrect syntax that I responded to earlier.
Yes, it was a moment of confusion of mine...
thanks,
rodolfo
