On Thu, Oct 05, 2023 at 03:00:20PM +0900, John Crawley wrote:
> On 05/10/2023 13:15, David Wright wrote:
> > On Tue 03 Oct 2023 at 19:58:57 (-0700), Mike Castle wrote:
> > > (apt-mark showauto ; apt-mark showmanual) > apt-thinks-you-installed.txt
> > > dpkg-query --show --showformat='${Package}\n' | grep -v -F -f
> > > apt-thinks-you-installed.txt > rest.txt
> > (I've added the omitted -f.)
> >
> > > The file "rest.txt" should have a list of packages installed that were
> > > NOT installed via apt. With any luck, it is small enough to examine
> > > manually.
> >
> > I don't think your grep will work correctly. apt-thinks-you-installed.txt
> > contains patterns, and some of those patterns are very short, for example:
> > an at bc dc di gv jq mc pv tk acl ant apt bbe cpp ftp git gpg gpm kbd
> > ...
>
> Doesn't the -F option mean grep is treating each line in
> apt-thinks-you-installed.txt as a fixed string, not as a pattern?
Correct. You're probably looking for -x instead of adding anchors.
