-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Friday 11 January 2002 05:22 pm, Richard Cobbe wrote: > Lo, on Friday, January 11, Paul E Condon did write: [snip] > dpkg -l > > although you may need to set the COLUMNS variable to a larger number in > order to prevent some of the fields from getting chopped. > > See dpkg's manpage for more goodies. > > (Just out of curiosity, is the COLUMNS trick documented anywhere? I > couldn't find it in any of the obvious manpages: dpkg(8), bash(1), > environ(7).)
A problem with this is that even if COLUMNS is a huge value (from a very large xterm window, for example), 'dpkg -l > foo' will still create a 78 column output. - -- +------------------------------------------------------------+ | Ron Johnson, Jr. Home: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | Jefferson, LA USA http://ronandheather.dhs.org | | | ! "Millions of Chinese speak Chinese, and it's not | ! hereditary..." | ! Dr. Dean Adell(sp?) ! +------------------------------------------------------------+ -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iD8DBQE8P3gejTz5dS9Us5wRAjtEAJ97EC5yJxytdSYdmSxnUFrfY1z0IACeMdLk QUtMuUclIAYLJKqJLkmDc50= =seAG -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----