Colin Watson wrote:
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,
I saw that in the man page before, but on woody it seems to do nothing: export COLUMNS=2 dpkg -l puts out 4 columns. Hugo