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On 10/27/2011 7:18 AM, Christopher Faylor wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 27, 2011 at 07:30:04AM -0400, Buchbinder, Barry (NIH/NIAID) [E] wrote:
>> 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/'
> Is there some reason why you wouldn't just use cygcheck for this?
>
> cgf
>

Ken: /etc/setup/installed.db is exactly what I was looking for, thanks

Barry: Thanks for sed suggestions, makes for a cleaner list of info 
(which matches my need of "an ascii record" of what I've installed)

Chris: I didn't know about cygcheck and had blinders on during my search 
as I was looking for a data file rather than a utility. Just read the 
docs, test drove it per docs, and its definitely better than what I was 
originally looking for. Thanks!

Paul

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