* Shri Shrikumar ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [030714 07:36]: > On Mon, 2003-07-14 at 15:07, Andrew Perrin wrote: > > My office machine will be replaced next month. I'd like to make the new > > machine be pretty much like the old one. Given that I can't actually move > > the primary hard drive over, what's the best way to get the package list > > straight? Should I back up all of /etc, do a basic net install, then do an > > apt-get update; apt-get upgrade? > > backup /etc, /home, /boot and perhaps some parts of /var > > dpkg --get-selections >> packages > > and on the new machine > > cat packages | dpkg --set-selections
Hooray for the useless invocation of cat! =) Why not this one? dpkg --get-selections | cat > packages? Personally, I like this: dpkg --get-selections | ssh new-machine dpkg --set-selections Sorry to turn this into YAPSST (yet another pedantic shell syntax thread). good times, Vineet -- http://www.doorstop.net/ -- Microsoft has argued that open source is bad for business, but you have to ask, "Whose business? Theirs, or yours?" --Tim O'Reilly
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