Re: Potato orphans
>> joey@kite:~>dpkg -S '/usr/bin/\['
> I'd be inclined to call that a dpkg bug--it's not exactly intuitive
> syntax.
It's not a dpkg issue, it's a shell issue. '[' is a shell
metacharacter, and must therefore be esacaped when passed in an argument
to *any* program, not just dpkg.
Colm
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