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screen width of dpkg -l|grep package name



I am trying to determine how to get a complete list of installed packages using ‘dpkg –l’.

 

Here is my issue. If I use dpkg –l  | grep cupsys I get this. Note that the package name is incomplete. I believe this is caused by the screen width getting set to 80 columns.

 

ii  cupsys         1.1.23-10sarge Common UNIX Printing System(tm) - server

ii  cupsys-driver- 4.2.7-10       Gimp-Print printer drivers for CUPS

ii  cupsys-driver- 4.2.7-10       Gimp-Print printer drivers for CUPS

 

what I would like to do is get each line fully completed like it does when I use a specific package. Note that the package name is complete

 

 

haddock:/var/lib/dpkg# dpkg -l cupsys-driver-gimpprint

Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold

| Status=Not/Installed/Config-files/Unpacked/Failed-config/Half-installed

|/ Err?=(none)/Hold/Reinst-required/X=both-problems (Status,Err: uppercase=bad)

||/ Name                            Version                         Description

+++-===============================-===============================-==============================================================================

ii  cupsys-driver-gimpprint         4.2.7-10                        Gimp-Print printer drivers for CUPS

 

haddock:/var/lib/dpkg# dpkg -l cupsys-driver-gimpprint-data

Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold

| Status=Not/Installed/Config-files/Unpacked/Failed-config/Half-installed

|/ Err?=(none)/Hold/Reinst-required/X=both-problems (Status,Err: uppercase=bad)

||/ Name                            Version                         Description

+++-===============================-===============================-==============================================================================

ii  cupsys-driver-gimpprint-data    4.2.7-10                        Gimp-Print printer drivers for CUPS

 

 

 

Thanks

 

Tony


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