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Tommy Hallgren wrote:

> I'm trying to make pkg_info output only the package names without anything
> more. And I fail.

<snip>

> I want a list like this:
> Mesa-3.4.1
> ORBit-0.5.7
> XFree86-4.0.3
> aalib-1.2_2
> 
> Does anyone know?

In sh you can get it like this:

   $ pkg_info | while read pkg rest; do echo $pkg; done

This uses cut(1):

   $ pkg_info | cut -f 1 -d' '

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