Peter Cordes <peter@llama.nslug.ns.ca> wrote:
> dpkg --get-selections | grep '[^A-Za-z]install$' | cut -f1
> should work.
>
> This time for sure :)
How about matching what you really want instead of guessing with grep:
The second field is exactly "install".
And how about doing it all with one command invocation (Don't waste
PIDs!):
dpkg --get-selections | awk '$2 == "install" { print $1 }'
And I don't even know awk. ;)
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