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

["Tony Heal" <theal@pace2020.com>]

No, I did not know about that. Neat trick. Thanks

Tony

-----Original Message-----
From: celejar [mailto:celejar@gmail.com] 
Sent: Thursday, January 25, 2007 11:35 AM
To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
Subject: Re: screen width of dpkg -l|grep package name

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