Re: Reading output of 'dpkg -l'
On Wed, Mar 17, 2004 at 06:14:00PM +0000, john gennard wrote:
> I can't read the full descriptions of certain packages in the above output.
>
> I had the same problem some time ago and Colin Watson gave me
> a command to change the column width of the output. Now I'm
> embarrassed to say I cannot find his response (I did save it but
> Lord knows where, and I can't find it by searching the archives).
> Someone help me out, please?
COLUMNS=<number> dpkg -l
Cheers,
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Colin Watson [cjwatson@flatline.org.uk]
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