I thought -qf was "query: who owns this file" \_ SMTP quoth George Toft on 1/22/2002 20:04 as having spake thusly: \_ \_ Oh, silly me - I was trying \_ rpm -qa -qf "%{NAME}\n" \_ which did not work. The man page says -qf and --queryformat are \_ equivelant. Line 183 of the man page: \_ You may specify the format that package information should be \_ printed in. To do this, you use the [--queryformat|-qf] \_ option, followed by the format string. \_ \_ This: \_ rpm -qa --queryformat "%{NAME}\n" \_ works perfectly. Obviously --queryformat != -qf \_ \_ And I thought it was me. \_ \_ Thanks for the clue! \_ \_ George \_ \_ \_ \_ "David A. Sinck" wrote: \_ > \_ > See the query format in the man page \_ > \_ > rpm --queryformat "%{NAME}-%{VERSION}-%{RELEASE}-%{ARCH}\n" -qa \_ > \_ > is part of one of my aliases; I'm guessing if you leave of VERSION, \_ > RELEASE, and ARCH you'll be in downtown. \_ > \_ > David \_ > \_ > \_ SMTP quoth George Toft on 1/21/2002 23:59 as having spake thusly: \_ > \_ \_ > \_ 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 \_ > \_ ________________________________________________ \_ > \_ See http://PLUG.phoenix.az.us/navigator-mail.shtml if your mail doesn't post to the list quickly and you use Netscape to write mail. \_ > \_ \_ > \_ PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us \_ > \_ http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss \_ > ________________________________________________ \_ > See http://PLUG.phoenix.az.us/navigator-mail.shtml if your mail doesn't post to the list quickly and you use Netscape to write mail. \_ > \_ > PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us \_ > http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss \_ ________________________________________________ \_ See http://PLUG.phoenix.az.us/navigator-mail.shtml if your mail doesn't post to the list quickly and you use Netscape to write mail. \_ \_ PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us \_ http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss