Re: dpkg -l / truncation of names

[Rick Pasotto <rick@niof.net>]

On Mon, Aug 22, 2005 at 03:37:50PM +0200, Rakotomandimby Mihamina wrote:
> Hi,
> I would like to save the names of all the installed packages.
> 
> # dpkg -l | awk '{print $2}'
> 
> Does the work, but some packages with long names are name truncated.
> What's the option to provide to display the full name?

What I use is:

# COLUMNS=120 dpkg -l | awk '{print $2}'

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