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

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*

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

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

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 -- Michael P. Soulier

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*