[wellylug] If you are stuck for ideas for a lightning talk session

Grant McLean grant at mclean.net.nz
Thu Feb 13 09:56:57 NZDT 2014


On Thu, 2014-02-13 at 09:37 +1300, Donovan Jones wrote:
> I cant resist a bit of golf:
>
> dpkg --get-selections | awk '{print $1}' | sort -R | head -1

That's not really golf considering it's much clearer than my original.

I was unaware that sort had a -R option so thanks for the tip.

This is golf :-) ...

dpkg --get-selections|sort -R|awk 'FNR==1{print$1}'

Cheers
Grant




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