On Mon, May 19, 2003 at 04:24:07AM +0200, Pierre THIERRY wrote: > When I use dpkg -l, I have wide columns I lose everytime a pipe the > content on something, being a file or a program. And then, most of the > package names are cut... You can use dpkg-query with the --showformat option if you're processing the output automatically. See its man page for details. Cheers, -- Colin Watson [cjwatson@flatline.org.uk]