On Tue, 3 Oct 2000, Preben Randhol 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 -l gives: -| -|ii xfonts-scalabl 3.3.6-2 scalable fonts for X -|ii xfree86-common 3.3.6-10 X Window System (XFree86) infrastructure -| -|I would like to have: -| -|xfonts-scalable_3.3.6-2 -|xfree86-common_3.3.6-10 -|etc... -| -|I've been looking through the man page, but I cannot find out how to -|achieve this. -|
I'm new to Debian (not to Linux/UNIX) but you could pipe the results through "cut". For example: dpkg -l | cut -c 5-30 > my_log_file This will output only columns 5-30 of the output. --- Christopher W. Aiken, Scenery Hill, Pa, USA chris at cwaiken dot com, www.cwaiken.com Current O/S: Debian 2.2 GNU/Linux
