How about runnin it as "COLUMNS=200 dpkg -l 'netscape*' |grep ^i"
instead?
Jeremy
On Wed, Oct 31, 2001 at 05:41:49PM -0500, Michael P. Soulier wrote:
> Hey people.
>
> Beyond stretching my terminal to it's maximum possible width, is there a
> way to control the field width of the display from dpkg -l?
>
> ie.
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] msoulier]$ dpkg -l "netscape*" | grep ^i
> ii netscape-base- 4.77-2 Popular World-Wide-Web browser software (bas
> ii netscape-base- 4.77-2 4.77 base support for netscape
> ii netscape-java- 4.77-2 Netscape Java support for version 4.77
>
> It's cutting off the package names.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Mike
>
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