Re: Get list of installed packages

["Gian Uberto Lauri" <saint@eng.it>]

Tino Sino writes:
 > It has been asked before, but with different answers, e.g.:
 > 1) dpkg-query --list | awk '/^ii +/ { print $2; }'
 > 2) dpkg --get-selections | cut -f 1
 > 3) ... etc ...
 > Given that the output is the same:
 > $ diff \
 >         <(dpkg --get-selections | cut -f 1) \
 >         <(dpkg-query --list | awk '/^ii +/ { print $2; }') \
 >    && echo same-output
 > same-output
 > I wonder, what's the golden way to do this and why?

What's "wrong" in 

dpkg -l | grep ii

(you could use grep -e '^ii') or egrep '^ii', but I think it's not
worth the cpu used).

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