Or export COLUMNS=200; dpkg --list 'communicator*' On Tue, 18 Mar 2003, Clay Fandre wrote: > Google is your friend. > http://panuganty.tripod.com/debiantips/packaging.htm > > More specifically, > apt-get install dpkg-awk > dpkg-awk "Status: .* installed$" -- Package | cut -d: -f2 > > > On Tue, 18 Mar 2003, John Hawley wrote: > > > Say, a silly little question to the Debian gurus. > > > > Anyone know why my dpkg listing fields get truncated when I direct the > > output to a file? This is from xterm running in a bash shell. I'd like > > to be able to have a copy of the current package listing for all my > > servers and its irritating to see the package names or version number > > > > root at rho1:cgi-bin# dpkg --list 'communicator* > > Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold > > | Status=Not/Installed/Config-files/Unpacked/Failed-config/Half-installed > > |/ Err?=(none)/Hold/Reinst-required/X=both-problems (Status,Err: uppercase=bad) _______________________________________________ TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota http://www.mn-linux.org tclug-list at mn-linux.org https://mailman.real-time.com/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list