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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