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

[Corey Edwards]

On Mon, 2006-10-30 at 18:58 -0700, David D Turley wrote:
>  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

Make sure you're using backticks (on your keyboard it's under the tilde)
and not single quotes. The two backticks are before "dpkg" and after
"cut -f 1".

Corey

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