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Re: System recovery nearing completion



 --- "Karl E. Jorgensen" <karl@jorgensen.com> wrote: 
>     # COLUMNS=2000 dpkg -l | \
>         grep '^ii' | \
>         awk '{print $2;}' | \
>         xargs apt-get --reinstall install
> ?

Ugh. 2000 is slightly high, not to mention the UUoG:

COLUMNS=200 dpkg -l | awk '/^ii/ {print $2}' | \ 
xargs apt-get --reinstall install

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