Re: how to see the full name in dpkg -l

[cjw44@flatline.org.uk (Colin Watson)]

Erik Steffl <steffl@bigfoot.com> wrote:

[quoting reordered to be in the normal reading order, from top to
bottom]

>Peter Jay Salzman wrote:
>> when i do a dpkg -l "*netscape*", some of the output looks like:
>> 
>>     Name           Version        Description
>> pn  netscape-java- <none>         (no description available)
[snip]
>> is there a way to tell dpkg to show the entire name field?   How about the
>> entire description field?
>
>  you can resize your terminal window,
>
>  the sad part is that it is always like the example below if you
>redirect/pipe it.

Not with the newer dpkg in woody (say, version 1.7.0), where you can set
the COLUMNS environment variable to be the terminal width you want.

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Colin Watson                                     [cjw44@flatline.org.uk]