Re: About /var/log/dpgk.log

From	Rodolfo Medina <rodolfo.medina@gmail.com>
Newsgroups	linux.debian.user
Subject	Re: About /var/log/dpgk.log
Date	2020-07-28 13:30 +0200
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The Wanderer <wanderer@fastmail.fm> writes:

> On 2020-07-27 at 19:02, Rodolfo Medina wrote:
>
>> The Wanderer <wanderer@fastmail.fm> writes:
>> 
>>> On 2020-07-27 at 10:37, The Wanderer wrote:
>>>
>>>> What you want to do instead is to run this exact latter command, and
>>>> pass the output of that into the 'aptitude purge' command.
>>>
>>>> Try:
>>>> 
>>>> $ aptitude purge $(grep "2020-07-23.*.install " /var/log/dpkg.log | awk
>>>> '{ print $4 }' | tr '\n' ' ')
>>>> 
>>>> and see what you get.
>>>
>>> Turns out that the 'tr' part can be dropped as well; the subshell
>>> redirection is smart enough for the newlines to be processed correctly.
>> 
>> All right, but with the `tr' part then it's easier to copy and paste the
>> output
>> and pass it as argument to `# aptitude purge'...
>
> Quite true, and that's what I thought at first you were doing, until you
> gave the command line with incorrect syntax that I responded to earlier.


Yes, it was a moment of confusion of mine...

thanks,

rodolfo

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About /var/log/dpgk.log Rodolfo Medina <rodolfo.medina@gmail.com> - 2020-07-25 21:50 +0200
  Re: About /var/log/dpgk.log <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2020-07-25 22:10 +0200
    Re: About /var/log/dpgk.log The Wanderer <wanderer@fastmail.fm> - 2020-07-25 22:30 +0200
      Re: About /var/log/dpgk.log <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2020-07-25 23:00 +0200
      Re: About /var/log/dpgk.log Sven Joachim <svenjoac@gmx.de> - 2020-07-25 23:00 +0200
        Re: About /var/log/dpgk.log <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2020-07-25 23:40 +0200
          Re: About /var/log/dpgk.log Rodolfo Medina <rodolfo.medina@gmail.com> - 2020-07-27 14:20 +0200
            Re: About /var/log/dpgk.log Greg Wooledge <wooledg@eeg.ccf.org> - 2020-07-27 14:30 +0200
            Re: About /var/log/dpgk.log The Wanderer <wanderer@fastmail.fm> - 2020-07-27 14:40 +0200
              Re: About /var/log/dpgk.log Rodolfo Medina <rodolfo.medina@gmail.com> - 2020-07-27 15:00 +0200
                Re: About /var/log/dpgk.log The Wanderer <wanderer@fastmail.fm> - 2020-07-27 15:10 +0200
                Re: About /var/log/dpgk.log Rodolfo Medina <rodolfo.medina@gmail.com> - 2020-07-27 16:00 +0200
                Re: About /var/log/dpgk.log The Wanderer <wanderer@fastmail.fm> - 2020-07-27 16:10 +0200
                Re: About /var/log/dpgk.log Rodolfo Medina <rodolfo.medina@gmail.com> - 2020-07-27 16:30 +0200
                Re: About /var/log/dpgk.log The Wanderer <wanderer@fastmail.fm> - 2020-07-27 16:40 +0200
                Re: About /var/log/dpgk.log The Wanderer <wanderer@fastmail.fm> - 2020-07-27 17:50 +0200
                Re: About /var/log/dpgk.log Rodolfo Medina <rodolfo.medina@gmail.com> - 2020-07-28 01:10 +0200
                Re: About /var/log/dpgk.log The Wanderer <wanderer@fastmail.fm> - 2020-07-28 01:20 +0200
                Re: About /var/log/dpgk.log Rodolfo Medina <rodolfo.medina@gmail.com> - 2020-07-28 13:30 +0200
                Re: About /var/log/dpgk.log David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2020-07-27 17:40 +0200
                Re: About /var/log/dpgk.log Rodolfo Medina <rodolfo.medina@gmail.com> - 2020-07-27 21:10 +0200
                Re: About /var/log/dpgk.log Greg Wooledge <wooledg@eeg.ccf.org> - 2020-07-27 21:20 +0200
                Re: About /var/log/dpgk.log Rodolfo Medina <rodolfo.medina@gmail.com> - 2020-07-27 21:50 +0200
                Re: About /var/log/dpgk.log Greg Wooledge <wooledg@eeg.ccf.org> - 2020-07-27 21:50 +0200
                Re: About /var/log/dpgk.log Rodolfo Medina <rodolfo.medina@gmail.com> - 2020-07-27 22:20 +0200

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