Re: Question on dpkg -l output.
Eduardo M KALINOWSKI wrote:
> On 21 de dezembro de 2018 20:24, aprekates wrote:
> > In a new installed system with Debian 9.6
> >
> > $ dpkg -l
> >
> > will list only packages with 'ii' state and a couple of 'rc'.
> >
> > But if i run:
> >
> > $ dpkg -l w*
> >
> > i will get a dozen also of 'un' packages.
> >
> > So i dont understand the logic of altering the output when
> > i use a pattern . I would expect to see only 'ii' packages starting
> > from the letter 'w' .
> >
> > Also i dont understand why in a new system dpkg would know
> > anything about uninstalled packages!
>
> dpkg -l w*
> will be expanded by the shell (if there is any file starting with w in the current directory).
>
> Have you tried
> dpkg -l 'w*'
Let's see:
dpkg -l w*
dpkg-query: no packages found matching webplot.txt
dpkg -l 'w*'
Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold
|
Status=Not/Inst/Conf-files/Unpacked/halF-conf/Half-inst/trig-aWait/Trig-pend
|/ Err?=(none)/Reinst-required (Status,Err: uppercase=bad)
||/ Name Version Architecture Description
+++-==============-============-============-=================================
un w-bassman <none> <none> (no description
available)
ii w3m 0.5.3-34+deb amd64 WWW browsable pager
with excellen
un w3m-el <none> <none> (no description
available)
un w3m-img <none> <none> (no description
available)
un w3m-ssl <none> <none> (no description
available)
un w3mmee <none> <none> (no description
available)
un wacom-tools <none> <none> (no description
available)
un wajig <none> <none> (no description
available)
ii wamerican 7.1-1 all American English
dictionary words
un watch <none> <none> (no description
available)
un watchdog <none> <none> (no description
available)
un wbritish <none> <none> (no description
available)
un wdiff <none> <none> (no description
available)
....
-dsr-
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