On Wed, Mar 17, 2004 at 01:31:52PM -0600, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote:
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.
That's columns as in characters across the screen, not as in fields in the output. Suitable values are more like 120 than 2. If it's too small, like 2, I think it's just ignored.
$COLUMNS checking was added in dpkg 1.7.0, so it's in woody.
Sorry, my fault. $COLUMNS to 200 gets me everything visible. Thanks!
Hugo.
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