pipes, dpkg and default screen width (sort of)

[charlie derr <cderr@simons-rock.edu>]

Hi,
	Often I find myself executing the following:

$ dpkg -l '*foo*'

to find all packages with foo in the name.
When instead I look for only installed foo packages as follows:

$ dpkg -l '*foo*' | grep ii

the output is truncated, and if there's a foo package with a
particularly long package name, I won't see the full name.

Is there an envrironment variable I could set to prevent this?
Or some other workaround simpler than redirecting the first
command to a temporary file (and then using grep on that)?

	thank you so much in advance,
		~c


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