Re: mashup "apt-cache search <SearchTerm>" & "dpkg -l" - HowTo? ; jor
On Sun, 27 Jun 2010 13:27:14 -0700, "giovanni_re" <john_re@fastmail.us> said:
> Note: One way might be to:
> 1) Do the apt-cache search <packagename>
> 2) For each line
> 2a) Pull out the package name
> 2b) Write an apt-cache search for that name only to a temp file
Er, that should have been a "dpkg -l" command, like this:
> 2b) Write a "dpkg -l" command for that name only to a temp file
> 3) Do the dpkg -l 's from the file
> 3b) & remove from the output all the dpkg heading info, leaving only the
> package status lines.
>
> Can you get that mashup? Thanks :)
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