On Tue, Sep 08, 2009 at 08:50:25PM -0700, Daniel Burrows wrote: > On Wed, Sep 09, 2009 at 12:41:18AM +0900, Osamu Aoki <os...@debian.org> was > heard to say: > > On Tue, Sep 08, 2009 at 07:54:24AM -0700, Daniel Burrows wrote: > > > On Sun, Sep 06, 2009 at 03:53:06PM -0400, Charles Kroeger > > > <ckro...@frankensteinface.com> was heard to say: > > > > Thanks for that suggestion but I don't use aptitude..I use apt, dpkg, > > > > and > > > > smartpm. > > [snip] > > > > aptitude --disable-columns -F '%p' search '~c' | xargs dpkg --purge > > > > > > ;-) > > > > What is the advantage of above over > > > > aptitude purge '~c' > > > > After all we use nice tool called aptitude :-) > > > > Unless some --force option is used with dpkg, they do the same. > > True, but aptitude isn't actually doing any package management there > (it could be run as a non-root user). If you have something against it, > I figured maybe just using it to generate a list of packages, to be > processed later with an acceptable tool, might be more palatable.
I see your point. Anyway, it is nice way to show how these --disable-columns -F '%p' are used for scripting. I tend to use interactive mode with "l". It was refereshing to find these tricks for command line scripting in current manpages. Thanks. Osamu PS: I got lost since it should be something like $ aptitude --disable-columns -F '%p' search '~c' | sudo xargs dpkg --purge to get dpkg to work as root while running aptitude in user mode. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org