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Re: files under /boot



On Vi, 29 mai 20, 08:29:44, Greg Wooledge wrote:
> On Fri, May 29, 2020 at 08:20:59AM -0400, The Wanderer wrote:
> > >> $ dpkg -l "*4.9.0*" | grep ii
> > > 
> > > First I had to figure out (google) to find what the leading ii
> > > means,
> > 
> > It took me a moment to catch what you meant by this; standard
> > terminology would describe that as a "trailing" ii, because it's at the
> > end of the line (thus behind, seen last, trailing) rather than the
> > beginning (thus ahead, seen first, leading).
> 
> Either you're extremely confused, or you've done something to distort
> the output.
> 
> In the standard output of dpkg -l, in the C locale, or in the en_US
> locale, the indicator columns ("ii" and so on) are FIRST.  They are
> leading characters, not trailing.
> 
> It's hard for me to even imagine how you could have this so completely
> backwards.  Maybe you're on some Right-To-Left locale (Hebrew?).  Or
> maybe you've got a learning disorder such as dyslexia...?  I'm honestly
> quite puzzled.

I'm guessing The Wanderer was talking about the one-liner, not dpkg's 
output ;)

Kind regards,
Andrei
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