Re: dpkg -l needs wider package name output

[Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org>]

On Sun, Apr 13, 2003 at 08:04:20PM -0400, Travis Crump wrote:
> Colin Watson wrote:
> >On Sun, Apr 13, 2003 at 06:11:21PM -0400, Benjamin Rutt wrote:
> >>It seems that there is an arbitrary limit on 'dpkg -l':  it only seems
> >>to output the first 14 characters of any package name.
> >
> >Set COLUMNS to something large, or use dpkg-query with the --showformat
> >option (check its man page).
> 
> pretzalz@Pretzalz:~$ echo $COLUMNS
> 145
> pretzalz@Pretzalz:~$ dpkg -l
> <nice wide output>
> pretzalz@Pretzalz:~$ dpkg -l | less
> <output squished into 80 columns>
> pretzalz@Pretzalz:~$ COLUMNS=145 dpkg -l | less
> <nice wide output>
> 
> Do you really have to specify COLUMNS every time when using dpkg/less? 

'export COLUMNS'

Cheers,

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