Re: list all packages that are installed

[Richard Cobbe <cobbe@airmail.net>]

Lo, on Friday, January 11, Craig Dickson did write:

> Richard Cobbe wrote:
> 
> > (Just out of curiosity, is the COLUMNS trick documented anywhere?  I
> > couldn't find it in any of the obvious manpages: dpkg(8), bash(1),
> > environ(7).)
> 
> Yes, it actually is in the bash manpage:
> 
>    Simple Commands
> 
>        A simple command is a sequence of optional variable assignments
>        followed by blank-separated words and redirections, and
>        terminated by a control operator. The first word specifies the
>        command to be executed, and is passed as argument zero. The
>        remaining words are passed as arguments to the invoked command.

Wrong trick.  I meant the special meaning of the COLUMNS environment
variable, not the ability to set it on the command line for a single
process.

Richard