On Nov 25, 2007 10:27 AM, John Summerfield
<debian@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> (which might be the reviewer's), Try this example:
>
> rpm -qa --qf '%vendorn' | sort | uniq -c
> 1 Adobe Systems, Incorporated
> 12 (none)
> 1 RealNetworks, Inc
> 838 Red Hat, Inc.
> 1 Sun Microsystems
I did. I got one of these per package:
error: incorrect format: missing { after %
Am I using the wrong shell? Have some alias defined that is screwing
it up? I was pleased to find a description of --qf in the rpm man page
(no examples of course) but no reference to %vendorn. Is it a typo?
I tried to take the advice of the error message...
rpm -qa --qf '%{vendorn}' | sort | uniq -c
error: incorrect format: unknown tag
Various other simpleminded variants fail. Apparently someone familiar
with printf might be able to fix this, but I am clueless. Is there a
way to make it work?
Dave
