On Wed, Mar 17, 2004 at 01:31:52PM -0600, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote:
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.
That's columns as in characters across the screen, not as in fields in
the output. Suitable values are more like 120 than 2. If it's too small,
like 2, I think it's just ignored.
$COLUMNS checking was added in dpkg 1.7.0, so it's in woody.