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<span id="cpt_002dalternatives-1"></span><h4 class="subsection">2.1.1 <code>cpt-alternatives</code></h4>

<p>You can list and swap to alternatives using <code>cpt-alternatives</code>, or
<code>cpt a</code> for short. When run without alternatives, it will list
alternatives. It can read from standard input if <samp>-</samp> is given as an
argument.
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<span id="Examples"></span><h4 class="unnumberedsubsubsec">Examples</h4>

<p>List alternatives
</p>
<div class="example">
<pre class="example">$ cpt-alternatives
ncurses /usr/bin/clear
ncurses /usr/bin/reset
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<p>Swap to <code>clear</code> from <code>ncurses</code>.
</p>
<div class="example">
<pre class="example">$ cpt-alternatives ncurses /usr/bin/clear
-&gt; Swapping '/usr/bin/clear' from 'busybox' to 'ncurses'
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<p>Swap in bulk (all of sbase).
</p>
<div class="example">
<pre class="example">$ cpt a | grep ^sbase | cpt a -
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