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

Douglas Bagnall douglas at halo.gen.nz
Thu Feb 13 10:20:59 NZDT 2014


Hugh Davenport wrote:
> dpkg --get-selections | cut -f1 | sort -R | head -1

dpkg-query -W | cut -f1 | sort -R | head -1


dpkg-query -Wf'${Package}\n' lets you drop the `cut -f1`, but it
isn't shorter.

Maybe you'd prefer to talk about something you actually use:

apt-cache pkgnames | sort -R | head -1


Douglas

> 
> And some spaces could be removed around the |'s
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