Re: Reading output of 'dpkg -l'

["s. keeling" <keeling@spots.ab.ca>]

Incoming from Hugo Vanwoerkom:
> 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
> 
> 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.

COLUMNS=110 dpkg -l

If you only want to see two columns of information, try awk.  If you
want to see the full, un-truncated name of a package, that's what the
command above does.  The COLUMNS here refers to the number of
characters to be displayed, not the number of columns in (eg.) "ps"
output. 


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