why does this command not work?

[Roger Oberholtzer]

On Wed, 2007-01-10 at 04:15 -0700, Myles Green wrote:
> sudo dpkg --get-selections | grep '[[:space:]]install$='| awk '{print
> $1}'

run

	echo "sudo dpkg --get-selections | grep '[[:space:]]install$='| awk
'{print $1}'"

which is basically your command put in double quotes and echo'd.

Note a difference in what is printed by echo and what your original
command was?

It's those pesky '\' escapes. Might be more. But that is what I see.

-- 
Roger Oberholtzer

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