On 2015-01-10 07:05:48 +1100, Riley Baird wrote: > > Otherwise shouldn't utilities (such as "dpkg -s") provide a > > configurable way to limit the output of the "Description:" field? > > You can pipe the output to "head" or "tail" to sort of achieve what you > want to.
Obviously not. It may be possible with something like sed or perl, but this may not be future-proof, and breakage due to changes in the dpkg output may remain unnoticed. And doing that automatically would need to write a dpkg wrapper, which could break dpkg in other contexts. -- Vincent Lefèvre <vinc...@vinc17.net> - Web: <https://www.vinc17.net/> 100% accessible validated (X)HTML - Blog: <https://www.vinc17.net/blog/> Work: CR INRIA - computer arithmetic / AriC project (LIP, ENS-Lyon) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/20150109215948.ga8...@xvii.vinc17.org
