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dpkg magic
Posted Feb 21, 2007 20:55 UTC (Wed) by rfunk (subscriber, #4054)In reply to: Do we need this crap on LWN? by vondo
Parent article: ESR's goodbye note
I don't think a capability like that is built in, but try this:
ls -ltr /var/lib/dpkg/info/*.list | sed -e 's,^.*/\([^/]*\)\.list,\1,'
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dpkg magic
Posted Feb 21, 2007 22:06 UTC (Wed) by jonabbey (subscriber, #2736) [Link]
Ah, but what would Eric say about such an unfriendly, regressive, inward-focused approach to software design?
Okay, yeah, sorry, I've got nothing.