[plug] Dpkg -P lots of packages

[Leon Brooks]

On Mon, 28 Jul 2003 17:03, Weirdo wrote:
> At 16:58 28/07/2003 +0800, you wrote:
>> on Mon, Jul 28, 2003 at 04:55:01PM +0800, Weirdo wrote:
>>> dpkg -P 'cat file_with_list_to_remove' but that doesn't work

>>          ^                            ^
>> Does it work if you change ' to `?

Or better still, from a BASH perspective: $(cat file_w_list)

This is bash-specific but much easier to read and also nestable.

Cheers; Leon