[wplug] bash for i?

Steve Polyack korvus at comcast.net
Thu Sep 4 07:48:31 EDT 2008


You're missing the statement that tells bash/sh you are done with the 
loop.  Try it this way:

for i in 'dpkg -l|grep xserver-xorg-video'; do 'dpkg --purge $i'; done


Zach Uram wrote:
> I want this script to remove all xserver-xorg-video-* packages but
> when I run it it takes me to some ">" prompt?
>
> #!/bin/bash
>
> for i in 'dpkg -l|grep xserver-xorg-video' do 'dpkg --purge $i'
>
> Zach
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