Re: rpm "list package names only"

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Kenneth Porter wrote:
> --On Thursday, November 03, 2005 11:19 AM +1100 Ben Stringer
> <ben@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
>> It's documented in the manpage - use the "--qf" option to format the
>> results as you want them.
>>
>> Eg.
>>
>>   rpm -qa --qf "%{NAME}\n"
> 
> 
> You'll want to sort the result, as the names are reported in
> seemingly-random order as they're pulled from the database.
> 
> Here's one I used recently:
> 
> rpm -qa --queryformat='%{SIZE} %{NAME}\n' | sort -n
> 
> The largest packages will group at the end, letting you know what's
> using most of your disk space. (For me, it was the kernel-source RPM on
> FC2 that was chewing up 250 MB.)
> 
Thanks, I knew it would be "simple" - I've spent forever trying to workout
that queryformat stuff - and the manpage referred to...
Regards,
M
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