Re: list all packages that are installed

[Richard Cobbe <cobbe@airmail.net>]

Lo, on Wednesday, January 16, dman did write:

> On Wed, Jan 16, 2002 at 10:31:47AM -0600, Richard Cobbe wrote:
> | 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.
> 
> ncurses thing, apparently.

Ah.  I would not have thought to look there.  Thanks!

Richard