Preben Randhol <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >I'm trying to list out all the packages I have installed on my system. >I can do a dpkg -l, but I only want the package names not the rest, as >I'm going to use the package names.
dpkg --get-selections | cut -f1 ... or, if you need the version numbers too: dpkg -l | grep ^ii | sed 's/^[^ ]* *\([^ ]*\) *\([^ ]*\).*/\1_\2/' 'man 7 regex' for documentation on regular expressions. -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED]
