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Re: dpkg -l columns shrinked



On Mon, 2003-05-19 at 03:28, Kevin Mark wrote:
> to capture output easily use 'script' (man script)
> it will save the output to a text file called 'typescript' by default.
> Just do this:
> $ script
> $ dpkg -l
> $ exit
> now you can 'cat typescript' or 'vi typescript'

Why not pipe the output?

  # x=`date +%y%m%d.%H%M`
  # COLUMNS=120 dpkg -l > /root/dpkg/dpkg.installed.$x

> On Sun, 2003-05-18 at 23:46, Pierre THIERRY wrote:
> > > $ COLUMNS=190 dpkg -l 
> > 
> > I was about to reply 'already tried', but I noticed you're using a space
> > where I did use a semi-colon... And it works well, now.
> > 
> > Thanks,
> > le Moine Fou
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