On Wed, Jan 14, 2009 at 09:57, Kent West <we...@acu.edu> wrote: >> >>> 3. How can I tell my aptitude-search command to list wider columns to >>> see the entire name. >>> >> >> IIRC, pipe it to cat; when stdout isn't a terminal it ignores the COLUMNS >> environment variable. >> > > Just leaving the grep portion out solved my problem, although I suspect I > could feed some parameters to grep to widen the column.
You could also use aptitude in interactive mode (use / to search). Not only should you see the whole package name, but in detail view you can clearly see the nature of "linux-image-2.6" vs "linux-image-2.6.18-6-686" Personally, I always use the ncurses interface over the pure CLI. Cheers, Kelly Clowers -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
