I was testing it by grepping XFree86 like so:

[droog@bigblack droog]$ rpm -qa|awk -F "-[0-9]" '{print $1}'|grep XFree86
XFree86-libs
XFree86
XFree86-twm
XFree86-xfs
XFree86
XFree86-tools
XFree86-xdm
XFree86-devel
XFree86

[droog@bigblack droog]$ rpm -qa|grep XFree86
XFree86-libs-4.0.3-5
XFree86-4.0.3-5
XFree86-twm-4.0.3-5
XFree86-xfs-4.0.3-5
XFree86-100dpi-fonts-4.0.3-5
XFree86-tools-4.0.3-5
XFree86-xdm-4.0.3-5
XFree86-devel-4.0.3-5
XFree86-75dpi-fonts-4.0.3-5

Im too tired to figure it out...:-)


At 12:01 AM 1/22/2002 -0700, you wrote:
>worked here on my DEC alpha when I just cut and pasted the command into the
>terminal.  Make sure you typed it correctly or just cut and paste it.
>
>Eddie Williams wrote:
> >
> > erp....that doesnt quite work correctly....
> >
> > At 11:50 PM 1/21/2002 -0800, you wrote:
> > >rpm -qa|awk -F "-[0-9]" '{print $1}'
> > >
> > >
> > >At 11:59 PM 1/21/2002 -0500, you wrote:
> > >>Yes, I spent an hour in the man page and typing, and I got
> > >>nowhere.
> > >>
> > >>What I want is a list of packages installed without
> > >>version numbers - like rpm -qa.
> > >>
> > >>I know it has to be easy, but that man page is not.
> > >>
> > >>George
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