Re: grep bug?

[Frank Gevaerts <frank@gevaerts.be>]

On Wed, Sep 21, 2005 at 02:20:12PM -0700, Enrique Morfin wrote:
> 
> if:
> 
> $aptitude search kernel-image
> v   kernel-image                                      

snipped
> 
> if:
> $ aptitude search kernel-image|grep 2.6
> p   kernel-image-2.4.27-2-686       - Linux kernel
> image for version 2.4.27 on P
> 
> there are only 80 columns!
> This not happen with "ls -alh" and long filenames

aptitude detects that it is outputting to a pipe, and formats to 80
columns. Without the pipe, it asks the terminal settings.
Try: 
$ aptitude search kernel-image|cat

Frank

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