On Thu, 31 Dec 2020 11:25:58 -0800
Rick Moen <rick@???> wrote:


> My _personal_ favourite part of that StackExchange page is where it
> says there's a solution to that difficult and vexing problem in the
> Linuxmafia.com Knowledgebase at
> http://linuxmafia.com/faq/Debian/package-database-rebuild.html .

The preceding shellscript is what Linux, UNIX, BSD, and POSIX are all
about. There's a reason Thompson and Ritchie gave us simple, tested and
flawless commands to do one thing and do it right: So we could string
them together to do something valuable and seemingly complex.

SteveT

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