Lo, on Wednesday, January 16, dman did write:
> On Wed, Jan 16, 2002 at 10:31:47AM -0600, Richard Cobbe wrote:
> | Lo, on Friday, January 11, Craig Dickson did write:
> |
> | > Richard Cobbe wrote:
> | >
> | > > (Just out of curiosity, is the COLUMNS trick documented anywhere? I
> | > > couldn'
On Wed, Jan 16, 2002 at 10:31:47AM -0600, Richard Cobbe wrote:
| Lo, on Friday, January 11, Craig Dickson did write:
|
| > Richard Cobbe wrote:
| >
| > > (Just out of curiosity, is the COLUMNS trick documented anywhere? I
| > > couldn't find it in any of the obvious manpages: dpkg(8), bash(1),
|
Lo, on Friday, January 11, Craig Dickson did write:
> Richard Cobbe wrote:
>
> > (Just out of curiosity, is the COLUMNS trick documented anywhere? I
> > couldn't find it in any of the obvious manpages: dpkg(8), bash(1),
> > environ(7).)
>
> Yes, it actually is in the bash manpage:
>
>Simpl
Just gave this a try on my Debian 3.0 machine.
Works in xterm
Does not work in rxvt
Does not work from cmd
VERY handy for 'dpkg --configure . Don't have to guess at what
the last few letters/numbers might be.
Thanks,
Lonnie
On Mon, 14 Jan 2002 03:23:57 +0100
"J <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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> "Ron" == Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
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>> On Fri, Jan 11, 2002 at 05:41:18PM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote:
Ron> [snip]
>> > A problem with thi
* Sridhar M.A. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [020114 11:19]:
> On Fri, Jan 11, 2002 at 07:58:47PM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote:
>> >
>> > 'COLUMNS=200 dpkg -l > foo'
>>
>> radical. thanks.
>>
> Personally, I would just do dpkg --get-selections.
More specifically;
dpkg --get-selections |
On Mon, 14 Jan 2002, csj wrote:
> On Sat, 12 Jan 2002 14:09:59 -0800
> "Karsten M. Self" wrote:
>
> > It's a shell trick.
It's a shell trick if you're using a Bourne-style shell, like bash, ksh,
or such. :)
> > You can set an environment variable for the _current process_ by
> > specifying it f
On Sat, 12 Jan 2002 14:09:59 -0800
"Karsten M. Self" wrote:
> on Fri, Jan 11, 2002 at 07:58:47PM -0600, Ron Johnson ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
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> > On Friday 11 January 2002 05:58 pm, Stephen Rueger wrote:
> > > On Fri, Jan 11, 2002 at
On Sat, Jan 12, 2002 at 02:09:59PM -0800, Karsten M. Self wrote:
> > > 'COLUMNS=200 dpkg -l > foo'
> >
> > radical. thanks.
> >
> > Doing that without a semicolon would *never* have occurred to me.
>
> It's a shell trick.
>
> You can set an environment variable for the _current process_ by
> s
On Fri, 11 Jan 2002 20:54:03 -0800
Paul E Condon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Thanks to all. I've got more than one way of getting my list. But now
> I have another question:
>
> Where is this information stored on my computer? Since I am somewhat
> paranoid about things, what assurance do I have
on Fri, Jan 11, 2002 at 07:58:47PM -0600, Ron Johnson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
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> On Friday 11 January 2002 05:58 pm, Stephen Rueger wrote:
> > On Fri, Jan 11, 2002 at 05:41:18PM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote:
> [snip]
> > > A problem with this is th
Thanks to all. I've got more than one way of getting my list. But now
I have another question:
Where is this information stored on my computer? Since I am somewhat
paranoid about things, what assurance do I have that the information
returned by these invocations of dpkg reveal correctly the actual
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On Friday 11 January 2002 08:31 pm, Sridhar M.A. wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 11, 2002 at 07:58:47PM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote:
>> > 'COLUMNS=200 dpkg -l > foo'
>>
>> radical. thanks.
>
> Personally, I would just do dpkg --get-selections.
While th
On Fri, Jan 11, 2002 at 07:58:47PM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote:
> >
> > 'COLUMNS=200 dpkg -l > foo'
>
> radical. thanks.
>
Personally, I would just do dpkg --get-selections.
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Sridhar M.A. [EMAIL PROTECTED]
"Engineering meets art in the parking lot and thi
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On Friday 11 January 2002 05:58 pm, Stephen Rueger wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 11, 2002 at 05:41:18PM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote:
[snip]
> > A problem with this is that even if COLUMNS is a huge value (from
> > a very large xterm window, for example), 'dpkg -l
On Fri, 11 Jan 2002 15:08:49 -0800
Paul E Condon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> How can I get a list of all the debian packages that are installed
> on my computer?
Many solutions have been suggested, here's another. It will end up
listing only the package names, nothing else. Useful for when you go
Paul E Condon wrote:
> How can I get a list of all the debian packages that are installed
> on my computer?
>
> I see lots of stuff about getting a list of all the packages that are
> available. But thats not what I'm asking.
>
> I know its there, because dselect somehow maintains it little
> sy
On Fri, Jan 11, 2002 at 05:41:18PM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote:
> On Friday 11 January 2002 05:22 pm, Richard Cobbe wrote:
> > Lo, on Friday, January 11, Paul E Condon did write:
> [snip]
> > dpkg -l
> A problem with this is that even if COLUMNS is a huge value (from
> a very large xterm window, for
Richard Cobbe wrote:
> (Just out of curiosity, is the COLUMNS trick documented anywhere? I
> couldn't find it in any of the obvious manpages: dpkg(8), bash(1),
> environ(7).)
Yes, it actually is in the bash manpage:
Simple Commands
A simple command is a sequence of optional variable
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On Friday 11 January 2002 05:22 pm, Richard Cobbe wrote:
> Lo, on Friday, January 11, Paul E Condon did write:
[snip]
> dpkg -l
>
> although you may need to set the COLUMNS variable to a larger number in
> order to prevent some of the fields from getti
Lo, on Friday, January 11, Paul E Condon did write:
> How can I get a list of all the debian packages that are installed
> on my computer?
>
> I see lots of stuff about getting a list of all the packages that are
> available. But thats not what I'm asking.
>
> I know its there, because dselect s
How can I get a list of all the debian packages that are installed
on my computer?
I see lots of stuff about getting a list of all the packages that are
available. But thats not what I'm asking.
I know its there, because dselect somehow maintains it little
symbols on each package line in its disp
On Fri, Jan 11, 2002 at 03:08:49PM -0800, Paul E Condon wrote:
| How can I get a list of all the debian packages that are installed
| on my computer?
dpkg -l \* | grep "^ii"
-D
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