Hi;

I am on knoppix/debian.

I noticed that the command dpkg -l truncates the names of packages.

I put

COLUMNS=200
export COLUMNS

in my .bashrc

No effect.

Is there a way I can set things up to get dpkg to display the full 
package name?

Thanks in advance

Steve


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Steve wrote:
> Hi;
> 
> I am on knoppix/debian.
> 
> I noticed that the command dpkg -l truncates the names of packages.
> 
> I put
> 
> COLUMNS=200
> export COLUMNS
> 
> in my .bashrc
> 

Make sure .bashrc does get executed and COLUMNS is set:
$ echo $COLUMNS

Also - dont do that.  Some things will probably break if you run at 200 
columns.  Better would be this:
$ COLUMNS=200 dpkg -l
(looks bad on my small res monitor)

Even better IMHO is to use dpkg-awk

$ dpkg-awk -- Package Version Section Installed-Size | awk '{
if ($0 == "")
	print $0;
else
	printf "%s ", $2;
}'

dpkg-awk is used in the following way
$ dpkg-awk "regexp" -- Fields to print
regexp is optional (and handling of white space in regexp seems to be 
broken)

If you run unstable or testing (or Knoppix), there is a program called 
dpkg-query.  It is a little bit easier to use then dpkg-awk.  Woody`s 
dpkg does not have dpkg-query (which is excelent tool).
This page:
http://www.knoppix.net/docs/index.php/KnoppixRemasteringHowto
has some examples of dpkg-query

Or you can write you own script to scan /var/lib/dpkg/status :-)