On Wed, Mar 17, 2004 at 01:31:52PM -0600, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: > Colin Watson wrote: > >On Wed, Mar 17, 2004 at 06:14:00PM +0000, john gennard wrote: > >>I can't read the full descriptions of certain packages in the above > >>output. > >> > >>I had the same problem some time ago and Colin Watson gave me > >>a command to change the column width of the output. Now I'm > >>embarrassed to say I cannot find his response (I did save it but > >>Lord knows where, and I can't find it by searching the archives). > >>Someone help me out, please? > > > > > > COLUMNS=<number> dpkg -l > > I saw that in the man page before, but on woody it seems to do nothing: > > export COLUMNS=2 > dpkg -l > > puts out 4 columns.
That's columns as in characters across the screen, not as in fields in the output. Suitable values are more like 120 than 2. If it's too small, like 2, I think it's just ignored. $COLUMNS checking was added in dpkg 1.7.0, so it's in woody. -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
