[sllug-members]: Re: CHMOD Big Oops!

Jarom Hatch jshatch at azza.com
Thu Oct 26 14:41:55 MDT 2006


Justin Searle wrote:
> On Wednesday 25 October 2006 19:59, Will Aoki wrote:
>> apt-get install -f -s --reinstall `dpkg --get-selections | grep
>> '       install' | cut -f 1`
> 
> Well theres some Debian foo for ya.  But how do you get the tab in there?  My 
> work around isn't as nice:  As a work around you could grep for "install$" 
> then do an inversion grep (-v) for "deinstall", but simply knowing how to do 
> a tab would be better.


When typing the command just hit ^V before hitting [tab] and it will
insert a literal tab...

Jarom

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