On Wed, Oct 31, 2001 at 02:52:24PM -0800, Craig Dickson wrote: | Michael P. Soulier wrote: | | > 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. | | This should do it: | | $ COLUMNS=255 dpkg -l 'netscape*' | grep ^i
Sweet, now dpkg will stop cutting off the names on my 1280x1024 console when I pipe it to something. Thanks, -D
