Re: missing LSB tags and overrides

[Steve Kemp <steve@steve.org.uk>]

On Thu Jul 24, 2014 at 14:40:14 +0100, Brian wrote:

> > How do I join this output into the purge command to save typing in each
> > package name?
> 
> A=$(dpkg -l | sed  '1,5d' | grep ^rc | awk -F" " '{print $2}')

  That seems needlessly complex, using both sed and awk.

  Removing sed you could use this:

     dpkg --list | grep ^rc | awk '{print $2}'

  And given that awk can be used to match you could drop the grep too:

    dpkg --list | awk '/^rc/ {print $2}' 

Steve
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