Re: screen width of dpkg -l|grep package name

[celejar <celejar@gmail.com>]

On 1/25/07, Tony Heal <theal@pace2020.com> wrote:

[snip]

> 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

Did you try COLUMNS=120 dpkg -l | grep xxxxxxxx ?

Celejar