On 06/02/2014 13:06, Tino Sino wrote: > I wonder, what's the golden way to do this and why?
It depends on what you're doing it for. If it's for a script, dpkg-query is a better choice, because you can do --showformat and it does not truncate version strings etc. 'dpkg -l' output is really meant for humans only, and you need to perform a few contortions to get a reliable output for scripts (COLUMNS=255 dpkg -l ... etc.); and you can't guarantee compatibility with future dpkg output. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/52f3a7ab.8050...@debian.org
