On Fri, Jul 18, 2003 at 10:15:03AM -0400, charlie derr wrote: > Hi, > Often I find myself executing the following: > > $ dpkg -l '*foo*' > > to find all packages with foo in the name. > When instead I look for only installed foo packages as follows: > > $ dpkg -l '*foo*' | grep ii > > the output is truncated, and if there's a foo package with a > particularly long package name, I won't see the full name. > > Is there an envrironment variable I could set to prevent this? > Or some other workaround simpler than redirecting the first > command to a temporary file (and then using grep on that)?
try COLUMNS=200 dpkg -l ... HTH, jc -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
