Axel Beckert wrote, On 01/18/2015 01:21 PM:
Hi,
thanks for your bug report.
U.Mutlu wrote:
why is the output of this
aptitude search coin
different than when redirecting the output to a file or a pipe:
aptitude search coin >t.t
aptitude search coin | less -Sn
The difference is that the result gets cutted when piping/redirecting.
Looks like being limited to 80 columns which generally sounds like a
sane default if the environment variable $COLUMNS is not set -- most
historical (hardware) terminals do have a width of 80 characters.
The question is: why such an inconsistent and unintuitive behavior?
While using a default value for searches on terminals where the width
in unknown surely makes sense, but it's non-sense with piping and
redirecting.
So I consider this a bug and allowed myself to file an official bug
report via the Debian Bug Tracking System in your name so that this issue
don't get forgotten and is properly tracked:
https://bugs.debian.org/775671 (Cc'ed)
Regards, Axel
Hi Axel,
thanks for the explanation and putting it into the bug tracking system.
Regards,
Uenal
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