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Re: dpkg -l format



On Tue, Oct 05, 1999 at 05:45:34AM -0400, Raul Miller wrote:
> Note that this last is equivalent to:
> 
> 	grep-status -P netscape | awk '/^Package: /{print $2}' | xargs dpkg --purge

which is better written as

grep-status -P -sPackage -n netscape

since this does not use an extra awk process.

> but it doesn't require any non-standard packages.

That is an advantage, true.

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