> > >> COLUMNS=120 dpkg -l | grep "^i" | cut -b 5- > pkgs_woody.current
> > Bob, could you cite an example of the name being cut off? Worst case
To be honest I was blind to the COLUMNS=120 and did not read that.
But as others said even long values can truncate long names.
> > I've found is that a few letters of the description are lost. The
> > package name and version have always been complete. (So far as I've
> > noticed.)
>
> It's time to stop using dpkg -l if you want to get full package names or get
> data to process further.
>
> dpkg-query -W --showformat '${Status} ${Package} ${Version}\n' | grep installed
dpkg-query? I searched but could find no reference to that. But this
looks like what I was poking toward.
Bob
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