Re: field width with dpkg -l

[dman <dsh8290@rit.edu>]

On Wed, Oct 31, 2001 at 02:52:24PM -0800, Craig Dickson wrote:
| Michael P. Soulier wrote:
| 
| >     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. 
| 
| This should do it:
| 
|   $ COLUMNS=255 dpkg -l 'netscape*' | grep ^i

Sweet, now dpkg will stop cutting off the names on my 1280x1024
console when I pipe it to something.

Thanks,
-D