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RE: question on backup


Ken Brown sent the following at Thursday, October 27, 2011 7:26 AM
>On 10/27/2011 3:24 AM, Paul Allen Newell wrote:
>> My question is how do I get an archive of what cygwin packages I have
>> installed.
>
>/etc/setup/installed.db

or

sed -n -e '2,$s/ .*$//p' /etc/setup/installed.db

or to feed into setup.exe -P

sed -n -e '2,$s/ .*$//p' /etc/setup/installed.db | tr '\n' , | sed -e 's/,$/\n/'

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