Re: field width with dpkg -l

[Josh McKinney <forming@home.com>]

On approximately Wed, Oct 31, 2001 at 05:41:49PM -0500, Michael P. Soulier wrote:
>     Hey people. 
> 
>     Beyond stretching my terminal to it's maximum possible width, is there a
> way to control the field width of the display from dpkg -l?
> 
> ie. 
> [msoulier@tigger msoulier]$ dpkg -l "netscape*" | grep ^i
> ii  netscape-base- 4.77-2         Popular World-Wide-Web browser software (bas
> ii  netscape-base- 4.77-2         4.77 base support for netscape
> ii  netscape-java- 4.77-2         Netscape Java support for version 4.77
> 
>     It's cutting off the package names. 
> 

Try dpkg --get-selections

Josh
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