Re: Getting wide ``dpkg -l'' output in scripts and pipes.
On Tue, May 18, 2004 at 08:34:53AM +0000, Adam Funk wrote:
> I want to dump a complete list of installed packages to a file as part
> of my backup procedure. man dpkg-query suggests using
> --showformat=format, in particular: "Package information can be
> included by inserting variable references to package fields using the
> ${var[;width]} syntax." But it doesn't say what the variable
> names are. Suggestions?
It can be anything from the /var/lib/dpkg/status file, case insensitive.
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