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Re: dpkg --list truncating lines



On Mon, Oct 07, 2002 at 10:51:31AM -0500, Grant Edwards wrote:
> A minor but annoying problem:
> 
> When I do an interactive dpkg --list, it displayes complete
> description summaries, but when I redirect output to a file, it
> truncates many of the lines.  Is there a way to tell dpkg not
> to truncate output?

Set $COLUMNS to something large, or use the new dpkg-query with whatever
format you want.

-- 
Colin Watson                                  [cjwatson@flatline.org.uk]



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