Re: get pkg name

["linux china" <chinalinux@gmail.com>]

yes, COLUMNS is good. the man maual of the dpkg-query says using
showformat, but has little details.

I can use dpkg-query -W --showformat='${Package} ${Description}' to
get package name & description, but the description is too long, not
like dpkg's output.

On 10/28/06, Andrei Popescu <andreimpopescu@gmail.com> wrote:
> "linux china" <chinalinux@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > I don't mean adjusting the columns. you can see the package name is
> > cut, the words after libhtml-tree-p is missing, so I just want to
> > output the name & description which are needed, other information like
> > version isn't needed, so how to just output the package name &
> > description?
>
> Did you actually try the COLUMNS= suggestion? It seems to adjust the
> widths of each column as well. If you want to get rid of the version
> information you will need to use something like sed.
>
> Regards,
> Andrei
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