Re: rpm -qp --queryformat "%{defaultprefix}\n" perl.rpm

[Jeff Johnson <jbj JBJ ORG>]

On Mon, Dec 03, 2001 at 02:29:51PM -0000, Peter Gibbons-BU wrote:
> hi-there,
> 
> i 'm tring to find out the default installation prefix of a packaage
> perl.rpm.  I have  read the example at rpm.org help docs and know that this
> is possible.  However, when i use the example i get an error:
> 
> rpm -qp --queryformat "%{defaultprefix}\n" perl.rpm
> 
> error: incorrect format - unknown tag
> 
> what should my command read?

bash$ rpm --querytags | grep -i prefix
PREFIXES
INSTPREFIXES
INSTALLPREFIX
bash$ rpm -qp --queryformat "[%{prefixes}\n]" perl.rpm

73 de Jeff

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