Re: newbie package question

[Paul Gear <paul@gear.dyndns.org>]

Kevin Mark wrote:
> ...
>>>dpkg -l|grep libc
>>
>>This is a solution, but not perfect, 'cause sometimes the package name
>>gets truncated, e.g.:
> 
> Hi Tong,
> here is the answer to the 'truncation'.
> doing:
> COLUMNS=139 dpkg -l
> this sets the env var COLUMNS temporarity to 139 for this command.
> -Kev

Surely if you pipe the output to a non-tty, dpkg should not truncate
anything.  It should be making that conditional upon a true result from
isatty( 1 ).
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