Re: how to see the full name in dpkg -l
Quoting Colin Watson (cjw44@flatline.org.uk):
> 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.
Well thank goodness for that. The potato version not only ignores it
(yes, I rushed off to try), but even if you have export-ed COLUMNS=120
in an xterm, dpkg -l promptly resets it back to 80 (though not in a VC).
Cheers,
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