Re: Getting wide ``dpkg -l'' output in scripts and pipes.
On 18. May 2004 at 2:03PM GMT,
Adam Funk <a24061@yahoo.com> wrote:
> On Tuesday 18 May 2004 14:50, Colin Watson wrote:
>
> > Those both set the COLUMNS shell variable but fail to export it to the
> > dpkg subprocess (you need an explicit 'export' to do that).
> > 'COLUMNS=200 dpkg -l' is a special syntax that adds the variable to
> > the environment of the dpkg subprocess without affecting the shell in
> > which it is executed.
This doesn't work in all shells packaged for Debian. I use use
"env" (coreutils):
env COLUMNS=200 dpkg -l
> I wasn't aware of that special syntax so it had not occurred to me to
> try it -- it looked like a "run-on" of two commands that ought to have
> something between them.
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