Quoting Robert Guthrie ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > On Wednesday 15 November 2000 11:43, Moritz Schulte wrote: > > Robert Guthrie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > I'm using this command: > > > dpkg -l * | egrep "^ii" | grep -i kde > <snip> > > > What I'm trying to get is the full version information. I only care > > > about that and the package name. > > > > You can do it with awk: dpkg -l | awk '{ print $2 " " $3 }' > > > > moritz > > That didn't work either. It seems that anything I run through a pipe gets > truncated. I'm not sure why. If I just run dpkg -l all by itself, I get a > nicely spaced output that I could cut and past from, but that would require > me to do the work that my computer should do for me ;-). Any suggestions? > Running this at the console (as opposed to an X terminal window) doesn't > behave any differently.
I'm not sure what you mean by pipes and truncation. The output of dpkg -l is stuffed into columns whose width appears to be variably- fixed according to the version/distribution. If you're to happy fiddle with the output, a better start may be dpkg -s `dpkg --get-selections | cut -f1` | less but why bother--- /var/lib/dpkg/status contains all this and more. You've just got to ignore the paragraphs that don't contain a Version: line. Cheers, -- Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tel: +44 1908 653 739 Fax: +44 1908 655 151 Snail: David Wright, Earth Science Dept., Milton Keynes, England, MK7 6AA Disclaimer: These addresses are only for reaching me, and do not signify official stationery. Views expressed here are either my own or plagiarised.