Re: get pkg name

2006-10-31 Thread Matthew Krauss
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

get pkg name

2006-10-28 Thread linux china
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? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL

Re: get pkg name

2006-10-28 Thread Steve Kemp
On Sat, Oct 28, 2006 at 06:04:32PM +0800, linux china wrote: 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? COLUMNS=200 dpkg --list ... Steve -- signature.asc Description: Digital

Re: get pkg name

2006-10-28 Thread linux china
I don't mean adjusting the columns. you can see the package name is cut, the words after libhtml-tree-p is missing, so I just want to output the name description which are needed, other information like version isn't needed, so how to just output the package name description? $ dpkg -l

Re: get pkg name

2006-10-28 Thread Douglas Tutty
On Sat, Oct 28, 2006 at 06:04:32PM +0800, 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,

Re: get pkg name

2006-10-28 Thread Andrei Popescu
linux china [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I don't mean adjusting the columns. you can see the package name is cut, the words after libhtml-tree-p is missing, so I just want to output the name description which are needed, other information like version isn't needed, so how to just output the

Re: get pkg name

2006-10-28 Thread linux china
yes, COLUMNS is good. the man maual of the dpkg-query says using showformat, but has little details. I can use dpkg-query -W --showformat='${Package} ${Description}' to get package name description, but the description is too long, not like dpkg's output. On 10/28/06, Andrei Popescu [EMAIL

Re: get pkg name

2006-10-28 Thread Douglas Tutty
On Sat, Oct 28, 2006 at 09:13:54PM +0800, linux china wrote: I don't mean adjusting the columns. you can see the package name is cut, the words after libhtml-tree-p is missing, so I just want to output the name description which are needed, other information like version isn't needed, so how

Re: get pkg name

2006-10-28 Thread David Jardine
On Sat, Oct 28, 2006 at 04:16:04PM -0400, Douglas Tutty wrote: On Sat, Oct 28, 2006 at 09:13:54PM +0800, linux china wrote: I don't mean adjusting the columns. you can see the package name is cut, the words after libhtml-tree-p is missing, so I just want to output the name description