* (Jacob Elder) | On Sun, Jan 06, 2002 at 06:05:26PM +0100, Tollef Fog Heen wrote: | | > dpkg -l | awk '/^i/ {print $2}' |xargs apt-get --reinstall install | > | > should work. | | Not unless every package name is <16 characters.
COLUMNS=300 dpkg -l | awk '/^i/ {print $2}' |xargs apt-get --reinstall install fixes that. At least until we have packages with names ~70 chars long. -- Tollef Fog Heen Unix _IS_ user friendly... It's just selective about who its friends are.