In <[🔎] loom.20090421T153051-254@post.gmane.org>, J.M.Roth wrote:
>Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. <bss <at> iguanasuicide.net> writes:
>> aptitude search '~i~M' | awk '{print $3}' > auto_installed_packages
>
>I'd rather do
>aptitude -F '%p' search '~i~M' > auto_installed_packages
>Your command does not work if the package state is e.g. 'i A'
>(note the space)
Actually, it only works in that case. Of course, because of the search
terms, all the packages will have status 'i A'.
Still, your command saves a fork, which makes it better in my book.
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