Maybe, split the command like that : sudo sed 's/Version: v1/Version: 1/' < /var/lib/dpkg/status.sav > /tmp/status sudo rm -f /var/lib/dpkg/status sudo cp /tmp/status /var/lib/dpkg/status
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