On Fri, 16 Apr 2004, [ISO-8859-2] Darabos Edv�rd Konr�d wrote: > Hi! > > The COLUMNS (and LINES) variable - by default - is set by the terminal > software when you resize the window (or change resolution in text mode). No > problem, perfect! :-) > My problem is the above mentioned. If you redirect the output of "dpkg -l", > then it uses an internal default (?) value of 80, so the package names a > stripped. So I cannot use the output of "dpkg -l" for scripting. I would > expect a similar behaviour to "ps". Try "ps auxf", and try "ps auxf | cat".
Set COLUMNS=###, or use dpkg-query.
