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

[David D Turley]

On Wed, 25 Oct 2006 19:59:22 -0600 Will Aoki <waoki at waoki.org> writes:
> On Wed, Oct 25, 2006 at 12:04:24PM -0600, Justin Searle wrote:
> [snipped Debian Etch chmod -R 777]
> > Or if you really want to have some fun, write a script to do it 
> for you like 
> > suggested earlier.
> 
> ... perhaps something like this:
> 
> apt-get install -f -s --reinstall `dpkg --get-selections | grep 
> '        install' | cut -f 1`
> 
> (Note that that's a tab, not spaces, between "'" and "install'".)
> 

I get the following error message:

Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree... Done
E: Couldn't find package dpkg --get-selections | grep

Later,
Dave