On Sat, 2013-05-25 at 07:02 +0100, Dom wrote: > LANGUAGE="C" dpkg -l $packagename | grep -q "^ii " > > will return 0 if the package is installed and 1 for any other state. Hey Dom. I don't know why I didn't think to set the environment variable before executing the query. That surely will work. Thanks a lot. By the way, where can I read more on specifically the meaning of the C locale and how it is the same or different from en_US? Further, is C locale guaranteed to be present on any properly functioning system, independent of whether the user's preferred locale is, say, Russian? -- Kip Warner -- Software Engineer OpenPGP encrypted/signed mail preferred http://www.thevertigo.com
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