On 2013-06-04 19:37, Jason White wrote:
Andrew Spiers <andrew@andrewspiers.net> wrote:
Is this the best way?
dpkg -L python-docutils | xargs ls -dF | grep \*
Perhaps a variant of this? for fn in $(dpkg -L python-docutils) ; do [ -f $fn -a -x $fn ] && echo $fn ; done
You could use the officially deprecated but ubiquitous `...` syntax rather than $(...) if you prefer.
Note that the -f test is needed to exclude directories.
Hi Jason, That's a slightly different approach, and one that I don't think does as much quoting as it should. If you can reasonably make assumptions about (for example) the absense of spaces in filenames of deb packages, then your approach will work, but mine is slightly more robust. I'd have quoted every expansion of "$fn", and not used the $() because of the space issue. The while loop (with data passed in via a pipe or fd) is more robust here, but as mentioned, given the limitations of dpkg -L, doesn't handle filenames containing newlines. -- Regards, Matthew Cengia