Re: cut(1) and space delimiters

2010-03-19 Thread Ron Johnson
On 2010-03-19 21:54, Mike Viau wrote: Fri, 19 Mar 2010 21:34:47 -0500 wrote: Googled and followed examples, which work, but my specific problem doesn't work... WORKS: $ service="http mail ssh" $ echo $service | cut -d\ -f2 mail $ echo $service | cut -d' ' -f2 mail dpkg --get-selections | gre

Re: How to reduce a debian system to a base system

2010-03-19 Thread Mike Bird
On Fri March 19 2010 19:14:21 Mike Viau wrote: > > Date: Fri, 19 Mar 2010 14:48:02 -0700 wrote: > > > > On Fri March 19 2010 12:55:47 Mike Viau wrote: > > > I was looking for a way to purge or remove all the packages that were > > > installed on a Debian system after the initial (bare bone) minima

Re: How to reduce a debian system to a base system

2010-03-19 Thread Ron Johnson
On 2010-03-19 21:26, Mike Viau wrote: Date: Fri, 19 Mar 2010 21:13:49 -0500 wrote: [snip] I see no purpose, when you can do this at any time: COLUMNS=180 dpkg -l | grep ^i | \ cut -c4-44 > installed.packages.`date +"%Y%M%d-%H%m"` Since that's obviously a pain to write, put it in an a

[Semi-OT] Difficulties in moving to Linux (was Re: (OT) gnash vs. flash ...)

2010-03-19 Thread Ron Johnson
On 2010-03-18 03:41, Andrei Popescu wrote: On Thu,18.Mar.10, 03:28:40, Ron Johnson wrote: The main problem is all the 3rd party applications written specifically for Word and Excel which have no analog in the OOo world. Interesting, I didn't come across such things in my company A

RE: [SOLVED] How to reduce a debian system to a base system

2010-03-19 Thread Mike Viau
Fri, 19 Mar 2010 20:02:56 -0700 wrote: > > On Fri March 19 2010 19:14:21 Mike Viau wrote: > > > Date: Fri, 19 Mar 2010 14:48:02 -0700 wrote: > > > > > > On Fri March 19 2010 12:55:47 Mike Viau wrote: > > > > I was looking for a way to purge or remove all the packages that were > > > > installed

RE: How to reduce a debian system to a base system

2010-03-19 Thread Mike Viau
Fri, 19 Mar 2010 22:06:02 -0500 wrote: > On 2010-03-19 21:26, Mike Viau wrote: > >> Date: Fri, 19 Mar 2010 21:13:49 -0500 wrote: > [snip] > >> > >> I see no purpose, when you can do this at any time: > >> COLUMNS=180 dpkg -l | grep ^i | \ > >> cut -c4-44 > installed.packages.`date +"%Y%M

Re: cut(1) and space delimiters

2010-03-19 Thread der.hans
Am 19. Mär, 2010 schwätzte Ron Johnson so: Googled and followed examples, which work, but my specific problem doesn't work... WORKS: $ service="http mail ssh" $ echo $service | cut -d\ -f2 mail $ echo $service | cut -d' ' -f2 mail dpkg --get-selections | grep -v deinstall$ | awk '{print $1}'

Re: Theoretical drive swapidge.

2010-03-19 Thread Stan Hoeppner
Ron Johnson put forth on 3/19/2010 2:24 AM: > 7200RPM (remember, that's 1200RPS) drives get *hot*. I wouldn't put one > in a laptop. (It's one of the tradeoffs you make for buying something > that small.) Ron, your calculator is borked. A 7200 rpm drive spins at 120 rotations per second, not 1

Re: grub2; unknown command initrd

2010-03-19 Thread Umarzuki Mochlis
2010/3/20 Tom H > > I have debian 5 on /dev/sda1 and ubuntu 10.04 on /dev/sda3 > > here are my grub.cfg > > ### BEGIN /etc/grub.d/10_linux ### > > menuentry "Debian GNU/Linux, linux 2.6.26-2-amd64" { > > set root=(hd0,1) > > search --fs-uuid --set da13d632-e65a-4128-9b06-0ec24a5d390f > > linux /b

Re: cut(1) and space delimiters

2010-03-19 Thread Mike McClain
On Fri, Mar 19, 2010 at 09:34:47PM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: > Googled and followed examples, which work, but my specific problem > doesn't work... > > WORKS: > $ service="http mail ssh" > $ echo $service | cut -d\ -f2 > mail > $ echo $service | cut -d' ' -f2 > mail > dpkg --get-selections | gre

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