Incoming from Hugo Vanwoerkom: > Colin Watson wrote: > >On Wed, Mar 17, 2004 at 06:14:00PM +0000, john gennard wrote: > > > >>I can't read the full descriptions of certain packages in the above > >>output. > >> > >>I had the same problem some time ago and Colin Watson gave me > >>a command to change the column width of the output. Now I'm ....^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ > >>embarrassed to say I cannot find his response (I did save it but > >>Lord knows where, and I can't find it by searching the archives). > >>Someone help me out, please? > > > > > > COLUMNS=<number> dpkg -l > > I saw that in the man page before, but on woody it seems to do nothing: > > export COLUMNS=2 > dpkg -l > > puts out 4 columns.
COLUMNS=110 dpkg -l If you only want to see two columns of information, try awk. If you want to see the full, un-truncated name of a package, that's what the command above does. The COLUMNS here refers to the number of characters to be displayed, not the number of columns in (eg.) "ps" output. -- Any technology distinguishable from magic is insufficiently advanced. (*) http://www.spots.ab.ca/~keeling - - -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
