Bill Mitchell writes ("Bug#2048: Broken pipe from dpkg to head"): > root:work# dpkg --info less*deb | head -1 > old debian package, version 0.939000. > Broken pipe Richard Kettlewell writes ("Bug#2048: Broken pipe from dpkg to head"): > richard@muskogee:richard$ ls -l | head -1 > total 19792 > Broken pipe > richard@muskogee:richard$ Quite. I'm marking this as done. RTFM bash(1). Ian.