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Re: dpkg -l question



On Wed, Jun 29, 2005 at 09:20:55PM -0700, michael@etalon.net wrote:
> Hello,
> I see that when I run
> # dpkg -l
> 
> I get a nice listing of installed packages, but if I pipe
> that command into less or more or even grep <whatever>,
> then the listing gets scrunched up, and it cuts off the end of packages 
> with longer names.
> Is there a way to display it to show the long name? or
> is there a better way to get a partial dpkg -l listing?
> 
COLUMNS=256 dpkg -l


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