field width with dpkg -l

2001-10-31 Thread Michael P. Soulier 
Hey people. 

Beyond stretching my terminal to it's maximum possible width, is there a
way to control the field width of the display from dpkg -l?

ie. 
[EMAIL PROTECTED] msoulier]$ dpkg -l netscape* | grep ^i
ii  netscape-base- 4.77-2 Popular World-Wide-Web browser software (bas
ii  netscape-base- 4.77-2 4.77 base support for netscape
ii  netscape-java- 4.77-2 Netscape Java support for version 4.77

It's cutting off the package names. 

Thanks,

Mike

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Re: field width with dpkg -l

2001-10-31 Thread Josh McKinney 
On approximately Wed, Oct 31, 2001 at 05:41:49PM -0500, Michael P. Soulier 
wrote:
 Hey people. 
 
 Beyond stretching my terminal to it's maximum possible width, is there a
 way to control the field width of the display from dpkg -l?
 
 ie. 
 [EMAIL PROTECTED] msoulier]$ dpkg -l netscape* | grep ^i
 ii  netscape-base- 4.77-2 Popular World-Wide-Web browser software (bas
 ii  netscape-base- 4.77-2 4.77 base support for netscape
 ii  netscape-java- 4.77-2 Netscape Java support for version 4.77
 
 It's cutting off the package names. 
 

Try dpkg --get-selections

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Re: field width with dpkg -l

2001-10-31 Thread Craig Dickson 
Michael P. Soulier wrote:

 Beyond stretching my terminal to it's maximum possible width, is there a
 way to control the field width of the display from dpkg -l?
 
 ie. 
 [EMAIL PROTECTED] msoulier]$ dpkg -l netscape* | grep ^i
 ii  netscape-base- 4.77-2 Popular World-Wide-Web browser software (bas
 ii  netscape-base- 4.77-2 4.77 base support for netscape
 ii  netscape-java- 4.77-2 Netscape Java support for version 4.77
 
 It's cutting off the package names. 

This should do it:

  [EMAIL PROTECTED] msoulier]$ COLUMNS=255 dpkg -l 'netscape*' | grep ^i

Craig

Re: field width with dpkg -l

2001-10-31 Thread Jeremy T. Bouse 
How about runnin it as COLUMNS=200 dpkg -l 'netscape*' |grep ^i
instead?

Jeremy

On Wed, Oct 31, 2001 at 05:41:49PM -0500, Michael P. Soulier wrote:
 Hey people. 
 
 Beyond stretching my terminal to it's maximum possible width, is there a
 way to control the field width of the display from dpkg -l?
 
 ie. 
 [EMAIL PROTECTED] msoulier]$ dpkg -l netscape* | grep ^i
 ii  netscape-base- 4.77-2 Popular World-Wide-Web browser software (bas
 ii  netscape-base- 4.77-2 4.77 base support for netscape
 ii  netscape-java- 4.77-2 Netscape Java support for version 4.77
 
 It's cutting off the package names. 
 
 Thanks,
 
 Mike
 
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Re: field width with dpkg -l

2001-10-31 Thread Michael P. Soulier 
On Wed, Oct 31, 2001 at 02:52:24PM -0800, Craig Dickson wrote:
 
 This should do it:
 
   [EMAIL PROTECTED] msoulier]$ COLUMNS=255 dpkg -l 'netscape*' | grep ^i

Cool, thanks. I'll look at --get-selections as well, as suggested by the
other helpful person. :)

Mike

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Re: field width with dpkg -l

2001-10-31 Thread dman 
On Wed, Oct 31, 2001 at 02:52:24PM -0800, Craig Dickson wrote:
| Michael P. Soulier wrote:
| 
|  Beyond stretching my terminal to it's maximum possible width, is there a
|  way to control the field width of the display from dpkg -l?
|  
|  ie. 
|  [EMAIL PROTECTED] msoulier]$ dpkg -l netscape* | grep ^i
|  ii  netscape-base- 4.77-2 Popular World-Wide-Web browser software 
(bas
|  ii  netscape-base- 4.77-2 4.77 base support for netscape
|  ii  netscape-java- 4.77-2 Netscape Java support for version 4.77
|  
|  It's cutting off the package names. 
| 
| This should do it:
| 
|   $ COLUMNS=255 dpkg -l 'netscape*' | grep ^i

Sweet, now dpkg will stop cutting off the names on my 1280x1024
console when I pipe it to something.

Thanks,
-D