Functional Difference of dpkg --get-selections vs --get-selections "*"

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Subject: Functional Difference of dpkg --get-selections vs --get-selections "*"
From: Bruce Gates <bruce.gates@LIVE.COM>
Date: Thu, 16 Jun 2016 18:36:03 +0000
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Hello,

Noob question for y'all...

What is the functional difference between dpkg --get-selections and dpkg --get-selections "*"?

It seems to me that the first command would find all packages anyway, making the wildcard erroneous...perhaps I'm mistaken?

Thanks guys and gals!

Bruce

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