Re: apt-get reinstall all

[Tollef Fog Heen <tollef@add.no>]

*  (Jacob Elder)

| On Sun, Jan 06, 2002 at 06:05:26PM +0100, Tollef Fog Heen wrote:
|
| > dpkg -l  | awk '/^i/ {print $2}' |xargs apt-get --reinstall install
| > 
| > should work.
| 
| Not unless every package name is <16 characters.

COLUMNS=300 dpkg -l  | awk '/^i/ {print $2}' |xargs apt-get --reinstall install

fixes that.  At least until we have packages with names ~70 chars
long.

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Tollef Fog Heen
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