On Sat, Feb 27, 2010 at 11:14 AM, Roman Kyrylych <[email protected]> wrote: > On Sat, Feb 27, 2010 at 18:42, Dan McGee <[email protected]> wrote: >> Define usable. Nothing you posted showed any sort of corruption >> whatsoever, it just linebreaked where you didn't expect. > We have a different understanding of "usable" in this case. :-) > Perhaps it would be more correct to say "easily readable". > >> If you are using a crappy terminal that doesn't support queries for size, >> then >> use this as a workaround: >> pacman -Qi glibc | cat > > Thanks, this does the trick. > It wraps the output of -Qi on 80th column which is fine.
It actually doesn't wrap at all; it leaves it up to the piped-to program to do the work. However, you will notice you now wrap package names and words mid-word instead of only splitting on spaces. -Dan
