Re: dpkg -l format

[Antti-Juhani Kaijanaho <gaia@iki.fi>]

On Tue, Oct 05, 1999 at 10:31:35AM +0300, Antti-Juhani Kaijanaho wrote:
> Simple:
> 
> grep-status -Pe '.*netscape.*' | grep-dctrl -FStatus -sPackage -n \
>  'install ok installed' | xargs dpkg --purge

Or simpler:

grep-status -P netscape | grep-dctrl -FStatus -sPackage -n \
 'install ok installed' | xargs dpkg --purge

(Lesson number one, ajk: never use regexps to simulate substring match.)

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