linux china wrote:
hi,
using the dpkg -l to get a list some installed package lists like this,
dpkg -l some-pattern
if the package name is too lang, its name is cut because of the limit
of the columns 80. if I wanna output name and description, what's the
command line?
The Easy Way:
dpkg -l some-pattern | less
Others have mentioned how to get only the name and description as you
asked; but I think your intent is really to get the whole name, right?
Anything you do that changes the standard output of the command so that
it is not writing directly to a terminal will cause it to make all
fields as wide as necessary. This includes any redirecting using | or
>, so what Douglas Tutty wrote will also work:
dpkg -l some-pattern > op.txt
.. then you may view the file op.txt however you like.
If you want the output directly to your terminal without using less or
going through a file, you can just redirect to the cat command:
dpkg -l some-pattern | cat
HTH,
Matthew
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